I've seen a few places suggested that you should use Homebrew to install Node (like alexpods answer and in this Team Treehouse blog Post) but installing this way you're more prone to run into issues as npm and brew are both package managers and you should have a package manager manage another package manager this leads to problems, like this bug offical npm issues Error: Refusing to delete: /usr/local/bin/npm or this Can't uninstall npm module on OSX You SHOULD NOT use brew to install node and npm. I'm super late to this but I didn't like the other answers Installing Homebrew Short variant of npm install some_module is npm i some_module.Some commands may require superuser privilege.Using bower: Install bower: npm install -g bowerĪnd then go to your project folder and install ngCordova in it: bower install -save ngCordova Using npm: Go to your project folder and install ng-cordova in it: npm install -save ng-cordova I don't know what variant is more fit for you, it depends on the package manager you want to use for the client side. What about ngCordova: you can install it using npm or bower. Using npm install ionic: npm install -g ionic Thanks to for pointing to the correct way (look at the comment bellow). You may want to upgrade it to the latest version: $ npm install -g Previous version was npm update -g npm. Npm is shipping with node (or iojs), so it will be available after installing node (or iojs). Using nvm install node or iojs (you can install any version you want): nvm install 0.10 If you have trouble with installing nvm using brew you can install it manually (see here) profile run: echo 'source $(brew -prefix nvm)/nvm.sh' > ~/.profile zshrc file to not run it again on every terminal start.

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