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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node - Second Edition
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In the previous section, we gave a high-level overview of what Node is and why it scales so well. In this section, we will begin making use of this scalability by writing code with Node. We'll install Node, set up a project, and start exploring the Node API.
Before we can write code with Node, we need to install it. In the previous chapters, you may have already done this, but let's refresh our memory of how to install it again, as Node gets updated quite frequently:

Figure 8.3 – Node website
For production use, you may want to go down the more conservative route and use the Long-Term Support (LTS) version, as shown, but since we want to learn about the latest version for this book, let's select the most current version, which is presently 26.2.0:
In general, later versions of Node will be slightly faster and have more security...