I’m working on a project for Cartoon Network and we are building an API on AWS which will accept some JSON and route to Lambda scripts that interface with a MySQL database. To do this I want to set up some local components for development and I’m starting with NodeJS to create both the API gateway and the Lambda scripts.

I want to contain NodeJS as much as possible and be able to switch versions and manage multiple packages across different projects I might work on. I’m going to do this using Nodeenv a python module to manage different versions of NodeJS.