Month: August 2016

Installing TypeScript on Ubuntu Desktop

Dmitry Zinchenko, , , 1 Comment

In this post I will share how to install TypeScript and Gulp.

Note: this post is a part of the series of posts about my experience using Ubuntu Desktop for software development.

 

Prerequisites

For TypeScript and Gulp to work they require Node and NPM installed on your machine. Follow these steps to install Node and NPM on Ubuntu Desktop.

 

TypeScript

You install TypeScript by installing typescript npm package globally.

$ sudo npm install -g typescript

To check the TypeScript compiler version type

$ tsc --version

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This is the minimum you need to do to install TypeScript and start using it.

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Installing TypeScript on Ubuntu Desktop

Installing Node and NPM on Ubuntu Desktop

Dmitry Zinchenko, , , 2 Comments

In this post I will share how to install Node and NPM.

Note: this post is a part of the series of posts about my experience using Ubuntu Desktop for software development.

 

Nodejs, not Node

Keep in mind that on Ubuntu the name of the Node.js package/executable is nodejs, not node.

 

Installing Node and NPM using Package Manager

The easiest way to install stable versions of Node.js and NPM is using package manager. First. let’s check what versions are available

$ sudo apt-get update
$ apt-cache show nodejs
$ apt-cache show npm

At the time of writing, the current versions of nodejs and npm are 4.2.6 and 3.5.2 respectively.

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Installing Node and NPM on Ubuntu Desktop

Installing And Configuring VS Code on Ubuntu Desktop and Git Workflow

Dmitry Zinchenko, , , , , 1 Comment

In this post I will share how to install VS Code (Microsoft Visual Studio Code) and work with GitHub repository.

Note: this post is a part of the series of posts about my experience using Ubuntu Desktop for software development.

 

Prerequisites

For VS Code to work with GitHub repositories it requires Git installed on your machine. Follow these steps to Install and Configure Git and GitHub on Ubuntu Desktop.

Installing VS Code

To install VS Code (current version 1.4) visit VS Code for Linux Docs page and you will be prompted to download the package and open it in Software Install.

post-20-01Hit OK and install the package. After that you will be presented with Getting Started page. And that’s all you need to do to install VS Code on Ubuntu Desktop.

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Installing And Configuring Git and GitHub on Ubuntu Desktop

Dmitry Zinchenko, , , 2 Comments

In this post I will share how to install Git and then configure it to work with GitHub.

Note: this post is a part of the series of posts about my experience using Ubuntu Desktop for software development.

 

Git is not installed by default

$ git

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Git is not installed by default and you have at least two choices to install it. The first choice is to install Git using package management tool, and the second – to build it from a source code.

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Installing And Configuring Git and GitHub on Ubuntu Desktop