How To Install node-thenify on Debian 10

Learn how to install node-thenify on Debian 10 with this tutorial. node-thenify is Promisify a callback-based function

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-thenify on Debian 10.

What is node-thenify

node-thenify is:

Some features of this module:

  • Preserves function names
  • Uses a native promise implementation if available and tries to fall back to a promise implementation such as bluebird
  • Converts multiple arguments from the callback into an Array, also support change the behavior by options.multiArgs
  • Resulting function never deoptimizes
  • Supports both callback and promise style An added benefit is that thrown errors in that async function will be caught by the promise!

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install node-thenify on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install node-thenify Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install node-thenify using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-thenify

Install node-thenify Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-thenify using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-thenify

Install node-thenify 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install node-thenify using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-thenify

How To Uninstall node-thenify on Debian 10

To uninstall only the node-thenify package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-thenify

Uninstall node-thenify And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-thenify and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-thenify

Remove node-thenify Configurations and Data

To remove node-thenify configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-thenify

Remove node-thenify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-thenify configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-thenify

Dependencies

node-thenify have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-thenify package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.