Spin up a VM running nodejs
http://www.vagrantup.com
https://www.virtualbox.org (don't worry about setting up any VMs as the steps below will cover this)
http://git-scm.com
$ git clone https://github.com/gkrost/node-vagrant.git
$ cd node-vagrant
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
- Files placed in
app
are ignored by this repo.