Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms

上QQ阅读APP看书，第一时间看更新

Node.js http-server

The third option is having an environment that is 100 percent JavaScript! For this environment, we need to have Node.js installed. Go to http://nodejs.org, and download and install Node.js. After installing it, open the Terminal application (if you are using Windows, open the Command Prompt with Node.js, which was installed with Node.js) and run the following command:

    npm install http-server -g

Make sure you type the command and don't copy and paste it. Copying the command might give you some errors. You can also execute the command as an administrator. For Linux and Mac systems, use the following command:

    sudo npm install http-server -g

This command will install http-server, which is a JavaScript server. To start a server and run the examples from this book in the Terminal application, change the directory to the folder that contains the book's source code and type http-server, as displayed in the following screenshot:

To execute the examples, open the browser and access the localhost on the port specified by the http-server command.

Detailed steps to download the code bundle and run the examples are mentioned in the preface of this book. Please have a look. The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/loiane/javascript-datastructures-algorithms. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing. Check them out!