Installing Node.js on Amazon Linux EC2 instance

Here is an easy way to install Node.js on an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux.

Run as root on RHEL, CentOS or Fedora, for Node.js v6 LTS:

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash -

Alternatively for Node.js 8:

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -

Alternatively for Node.js 0.10:

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -

Then install, as root:

yum -y install nodejs

Test: Run node -v. The version should be higher than v0.10.32.

Node comes with npm installed so you should have a version of npm. However, npm gets updated more frequently than Node does, so you’ll want to make sure it’s the latest version.

npm install npm@latest -g

Test: Run npm -v. The version should be higher than 2.1.8.

References:

https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/
https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node