All language subtitles for 6- JavaScript in Node

So in the last lecture

we executed this piece of JavaScript code inside of a browser.

In this lecture, I'm going to show you how to run the same code

in Node. So I'm assuming you have installed Node on your machine, if not

head over to nodejs.org and download the latest version of Node.

Now if you're on Windows, open up command prompt, if you're on Mac,

open up terminal, and head over to the folder you create earlier.

Now, in this folder we run Node, and pass the name of

our JavaScript file, that is index.js.

We get the same message on the console. So we can see node is

a program that includes v8 JavaScript

engine. We can give it a piece of JavaScript code, and it will execute that

code for us just like how we can execute some JavaScript code in a browser,

so Node is a run time environment for executing JavaScript code.

Now let me show you a tip. Here in vs code

we have an integrated terminal, so you don't have to explicitly

open up a separate terminal window. So here on the top,

under the view menu, look we have integrated terminal.

Note the short cut here, that's the short cut for Mac,

on Windows you're going to have a different short cut. So, select this,

and here's our integrated terminal, pointing to the same

folder where we created our files. So we don't have to explicitly

navigate to this folder. And here we can run Node

index.js as well. Now in this course we're not going to work with

node anymore, because Node is a completely separate topic, in fact

I have a comprehensive course about Node with 14 hours of content.

So once you finish this course, if you want to learn about Node you can always pick up my Node course.