How To Install node-turbolinks on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-turbolinks
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-turbolinks
node-turbolinks is:
Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link to pages as usual. When you follow a link, Turbolinks automatically fetches the page, swaps in its, and merges its, all without incurring the cost of a full page load.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-turbolinks
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install node-turbolinks 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-turbolinks
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-turbolinks
Install node-turbolinks Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-turbolinks
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-turbolinks
Install node-turbolinks 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 node-turbolinks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-turbolinks
How To Uninstall node-turbolinks on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-turbolinks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-turbolinks
Uninstall node-turbolinks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-turbolinks
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-turbolinks
Remove node-turbolinks Configurations and Data
To remove node-turbolinks
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-turbolinks
Remove node-turbolinks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-turbolinks
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-turbolinks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-turbolinks
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.