In this article we will guide you through the steps of installing NodeJS, Bower and Gulp on a Debian 8 VPS. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side web applications. It uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model designed to optimize an application’s throughput and scalability for real-time web applications.Node.js applications are written in JavaScript and can be run within the Node.js runtime on Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, NonStop, IBM AIX, IBM System z and IBM i. Node.js contains a built-in library to allow applications to act as a stand-alone web server. Bower is a package management system for managing web frameworks, libraries, utilities, assets etc. It is a must-have tool for any web-developer out there. Gulp is a streaming build system which is very fast, simple and efficient. It utilizes the power of node’s streams, so you get fast builds that don’t write intermediary files to disk. Gulp lets you automate tasks such as:
The following article will guide you through the steps of installing NodeJS, Bower and Gulp on a