Installing Note.js from binaries (the hacky way)

Node.js is required to build several JavaScript packages (Quill, for example) and the version that was available from the repository of my Linux Mint 18.1 was way too old: node v4.2.6 and npm  v3.5.2. The attempt to build the Quill Webpack with those oldies failed miserably. Truth to be said, there are instructions on how [...]