For anyone else who might be interested, here are some quick-and-dirty instructions for how to install node.js and npm (node package manager) on Mac OS X, from the terminal. This assumes that you’ve already installed the XCode tools, and git: # Fetch and build node.js git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git cd node ./configure make sudo make install # Now install the node package manager, npm: sudo chgrp -R staff /usr/local/{share/man,bin,lib/node} sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/{share/man,bin,lib/node} curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh … Continue reading →