I'm super late to this but I didn't like the other answers Installing Homebrew Short variant of npm install some_module is npm i some_module.Some commands may require superuser privilege.Using bower: Install bower: npm install -g bowerĪnd then go to your project folder and install ngCordova in it: bower install -save ngCordova Using npm: Go to your project folder and install ng-cordova in it: npm install -save ng-cordova I don't know what variant is more fit for you, it depends on the package manager you want to use for the client side. What about ngCordova: you can install it using npm or bower. Using npm install ionic: npm install -g ionic Thanks to for pointing to the correct way (look at the comment bellow). You may want to upgrade it to the latest version: $ npm install -g Previous version was npm update -g npm. Npm is shipping with node (or iojs), so it will be available after installing node (or iojs). Using nvm install node or iojs (you can install any version you want): nvm install 0.10 If you have trouble with installing nvm using brew you can install it manually (see here) profile run: echo 'source $(brew -prefix nvm)/nvm.sh' > ~/.profile zshrc file to not run it again on every terminal start.

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