Here is a recipe to add a new module into Node.js. In this case, we'll use Nodemailer, a powerful and highly customizable API e-mail engine. We chose this module because we wanted to actually have the script do something interesting and not just spit out another onscreen print command. At the end of this recipe, you will be able to run a script that sends an e-mail to your inbox.
Open up LXTerminal. Alternatively, open up the Cloud9 IDE in the manner described in the previous section.
Create a directory for your projects using the following command:
$ mkdir projects
Perform the following steps after creating a directory for your project:
Browse to this new directory and make another
emailer
directory using the following command:$ cd projects $ mkdir emailer
Now, go to the new directory with the following command:
$ cd emailer
Although it's not mandatory, the following command is the proper first step to setting up your node environment...