NodeJS on the Raspberry Pi

 Open-source platform NodeJS enables JavaScript execution outside of a web browser. The use of server-side scripting and command-line tools to power dynamic web sites has swiftly gained popularity among developers.

It is a powerful runtime with high throughput capabilities because of its event-driven architecture. It also makes use of the rapid V8 JavaScript engine, which was primarily created for the Chrome web browser.

 

With your Raspberry Pi, installing the NodeJS runtime is simple and only requires a few instructions.

You will also install NPM on your Raspberry Pi in addition to NodeJS. You'll be able to install more modules using NPM, which is the NodeJS's standard package manager. 

Let us start installation process : -

sudo apt update

sudo apt full-upgrade -y

Download the latest LTS version of Node.js for your Raspberry Pi 4 from the official website of Node.js.

sudo wget -o https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.14.2/node-v18.14.2-linux-armv7l.tar.xz

sudo tar xvf node-v18.14.2-linux-armv7l.tar.xz -C /opt

cd /opt

sudo mv -v node-v18.14.2-linux-armv7l node

sudo ln -s /opt/node/bin/node /usr/bin/node

sudo ln -s /opt/node/bin/npm /usr/bin/npm

sudo reboot

 Once reboot is complete, it is time check the installation.

For that, we have to use the following commands:-

node --version

npm --version

If installation is correct, above commands should show the version of the package installed.

 

That's the end of the installation of NODE.JS and NPM for Raspberry Pi.

 

We used latest Raspbian OS Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB ram.