Learn how to install CoffeeScript locally to solve Exercism's exercises on your own machine
Windows and OS X users: Install Node.js via package manager.
Linux users: Install Node.js via the instructions found for your distribution on the Node.js package manager.
jasmine-node
and coffeescript
For most users this will be as simple as running the following command:
$ npm install -g jasmine-node coffeescript
Depending on your setup, you may need super user privileges to install an npm
module globally.
This is the case if you've used the official installer linked to above.
If NPM gives you an error saying you don't have access, add sudo
to the command above:
$ sudo npm install -g jasmine-node coffeescript
If you've used the official installer, your PATH
should have been automatically configured, but if your shell has trouble locating your globally installed modules--or if you build Node.js from source.
Then update your PATH
to include the npm
binaries by adding the following to either ~/.bash_profile
or ~/.zshrc
:
$ export PATH=/usr/local/share/npm/bin:$PATH