nodejs one line installer

[nexflo]

Wouldn't it make sense featuring a terminal one line installer on nodejs.org (and also hosting it here)

Something like: bash < <(curl http://h3manth.com/njs

Really like pages/apps...where I know i can install quickly via terminal, and dont need a GUI package manager.... especially for development env's

[bnb]

On the code side of things, I think this is a good idea. However, I don't think nodejs/nodejs.org is the place where updates will be happening in this regard.

I suggest you create an issue in nodejs/io.js to have the functionality of this created, if it doesn't already exist. Once that's done, if you want it to be included in the official Node.js website, you should go over to nodejs/new.nodejs.org and ask the feature to be prominently included in the new site.

[fhemberger]

-1 on that.

Curling arbitrary scripts via HTTP into bash is a bad idea from a security perspective. Even when you do it over HTTPS (which does not equal end-to-end encryption).