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Alex Martini
Alex Martini
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Posted by Alex Martini
Alex Martini
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Node.js installed using sudo - should I uninstall and use Homebrew?

Hi,

I'm new to programming in general and am trying to understand all of this as I do it, so please bare with me! (especially if I say something that makes no sense at all ;))

I have a template that I'm playing with which is using Angular. When I originally set the template up, I installed node.js via Terminal using the sudo command. I also installed bower and gulp. The second time I went into my project, I ran gulp and everything was fine. However, the last time I went to work on my project Angular was not running when I viewed my pages in the browser. I went into my directory in terminal and tried using npm install and received the following: Angle@0.0.0 No repository field. I've been googling, but I haven't found anything helpful. I'm just confusing myself even more.

Before I completely screw up my computer playing around in sudo, should I just uninstall node and reinstall using Homebrew? The files were too large to include with the project, so I need to run commands to get all of the dependencies when working on this project. Would this be a better route?

Thank you