npm and nodejs

npm is package manager utility simiar to like apt, pip, brew. Below is the npm installation commands:

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install curl

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -

$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

this will install current release version of npm... use the following commands to check node versions

npm -v

node -v