Node.js dev environment

[jcarbaugh]

@recursivefunk, what is needed for a good baseline node dev environment?

[recursivefunk]

nvm gets you node and npm. gulp will get you set to build front end assets.

[jcarbaugh]

@recursivefunk should gulp be installed with npm install -g gulp or is there some way it should be used with nvm?

[recursivefunk]

Actually, you don't even need to install gulp. For projects that need it, it should just be a package.json dependency. Gulp's executable comes packaged with it in it's bin directory. Then in the package.json file you can do

"scripts": {
    "gulp": "gulp"
}

npm creates a .bin directory under node_modules/ and throws all dependency executables in there. When you configure a command in the script section of package.json like shown above, npm it will look under node_modules/.bin first for the command.

Short answer: don't worry about gulp