# Rails: How to configure NodeJS 16.x with Rails 6 on DeepinOS 20.7

`Revisited on December 07th, 2023`

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Hey guys, how have you been?

Today, we are going to learn how to configure `NodeJS 16.x` with Rails 6 on DeepinOS 20.7.

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### Introduction

`Node.js®` is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment. It works as an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.

`Node.js` is similar in design to, and influenced by, systems like [Ruby's Event Machine](https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine) and Python's Twisted.

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#### **1 - Install the NodeSource**

```ruby
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
```

You should be able to see something like this

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1672630821378/357dbf93-aa5d-4cb9-a769-af0f1befc219.png align="center")

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#### 2- Install Node16 and npm

```ruby
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
```

You should see something like this

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1672632227898/60209b95-e511-4cc2-bb2e-c6decf8236eb.png align="center")

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#### **3 - Install Yarn (Package manager)**

```ruby
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg >/dev/null
     echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg] https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
     sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
```

The result would be something like this

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1672631097073/5c73c0ff-7172-4c4d-b980-9644a6d476c3.png align="center")

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#### **4\. Check if** `NodeJS` **is installed**

Just to make sure that \``NodeJs`\` is already installed.

```ruby
which node
```

You should be able to see something like this

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1672631313064/0ff79512-e2f3-4f80-b5ef-4cb86c3dc9cc.png align="center")

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#### 5 - **Check if** `Yarn` **is installed**

Just to make sure that \``Yarn`\` is already installed.

```ruby
which yarn
```

You should be able to see something like this

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1672631704543/1e93549c-f470-4d59-a43d-157b14f085cc.png align="center")

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#### 6 - Check `NodeJS` 's version

```ruby
node -v
```

or

```ruby
node --version
```

You should get something like this

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1672631556225/26f37205-a16c-4ba2-8194-bd2ac286a216.png align="center")

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#### 7 - Check `Yarn`'s version

```ruby
yarn -v
```

or

```ruby
yarn --version
```

You should get something like this

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1672631856892/a16635ee-ffc9-4819-9b5d-48354d199d46.png align="center")

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#### 8 - Celebrate

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1670467202120/39r84GZVW.png align="left")

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1670125312642/Mk2RfkJIJ.png align="left")

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### Conclusion

That's all for today. I hope this article helped you. Let me know if you have any questions.

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