Development
HDvis uses node.js stack (webpack, bower and others) but first one needs to install node.js itself. The caveat is that if one just use apt install node.js it uses node.js LTS of version 4 which is pretty old (current version is 8). There are many ways to -skin a cat- install a nodejs on ubuntu, here we use nvm - node version manager.
The Node Version Manager GitHub page 
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash