How To Install coffeescript on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install coffeescript
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is coffeescript
coffeescript is:
CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.
The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: “It’s just JavaScript”. The code compiles one-to-one into the equivalent JS, and there is no interpretation at runtime. You can use any existing JavaScript library seamlessly (and vice-versa). The compiled output is readable and pretty-printed, passes through JavaScript Lint without warnings, will work in every JavaScript implementation, and tends to run as fast or faster than the equivalent handwritten JavaScript.
The “cake” executable is provided as “cake.coffeescript” to peacefully coexist with cakephp.
There are three methods to install coffeescript
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install coffeescript Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install coffeescript
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install coffeescript
Install coffeescript Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install coffeescript
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install coffeescript
Install coffeescript Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install coffeescript
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install coffeescript
How To Uninstall coffeescript on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the coffeescript
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove coffeescript
Uninstall coffeescript And Its Dependencies
To uninstall coffeescript
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove coffeescript
Remove coffeescript Configurations and Data
To remove coffeescript
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge coffeescript
Remove coffeescript configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove coffeescript
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coffeescript
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install coffeescript
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.