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 ==Installation==
-===Windows===
-Just download the latest LTS release from [https://nodejs.org/en/ the Node.js website]
 ===Linux===
-Using the [https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm Node Version Manager (nvm)] is recommended. This does not require sudo as nvm is installed in your home directory.
+Using the [https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm Node Version Manager (nvm)] is recommended.<br>
-You should never use sudo when using npm. Doing so could lead to permission issues.
+This installs nvm in your home directory.
+You should never use sudo when using nvm or npm.
+Doing so could lead to permission issues.
 <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
 curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/master/install.sh | bash
-# Reload .bashrc
 source ~/.bashrc
 nvm install --lts node
 nvm install-latest-npm
+</syntaxhighlight>
+===Windows===
+You can [https://nodejs.org/en/ install node directly] or use [https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows nvm-windows].<br>
+Note that nvm-windows is not a port of nvm.
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+choco install nvm
+nvm install lts
 </syntaxhighlight>
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 <syntaxhighlight lang="js">
 </syntaxhighlight>
 ===Running other processes===
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 [https://www.npmjs.com/package/argparse argparse]
-This is a port of python's argparse. However, it does not support configuration files. I usually use this snippet to parse configuration files:
+This is a port of python's argparse. However, it does not support configuration files.
+{{hidden | Example |
 <syntaxhighlight lang="python">
 const parser = new ArgumentParser({
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 })();
 </syntaxhighlight>
+}}
 ===node-worker-threads-pool===
 [https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-worker-threads-pool Link]
 A cool thread pool implementation.