Node.js for developers course, chapter 0: installing and updating Node

1. fnm

   1 71 20,583 8.2 Rust

   🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust

   

   | Out-String | Invoke-Expression - Full disclosure: I can't find either of these commands in the documentation. Let's spin this as a learning experience. Sometimes, we have to use commands we don't fully understand and just have faith in how they work. (Did that sound convincing?)

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. rust

   2 2,812 102,876 10.0 Rust

   Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

   

   Fast Node Manager lets us switch between them quickly. It's written in Rust which is a very cool language I know nothing about other than it runs really fast and is used for mission-critical systems.

4. Puts Debuggerer

   3 3,492 203 4.2 Ruby

   Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

   

   This guide expects you to have an account with GitHub and to have the vague idea that version control is like saving stuff "with knobs on". Please go set one up! It's free and you'll likely use it professionally, so don't choose a silly username.

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