Node Brew
Instructions for a supported install of Homebrew are on the homepage. This script installs Homebrew to its preferred prefix (/usr/local for macOS Intel, /opt/homebrew for Apple Silicon) so that you don’t need sudo when you brew install. Node Version Manager, more commonly called nvm, is the most popular way to install multiple versions of Node.js. We will walk through the steps to install nvm and then use it to install Node.js and Node Package Manager (npm). There are alternative version managers to.
Node.js can be installed in different ways. This post highlights the most common and convenient ones.
Brew install node Other package managers for Linux and Windows are listed in nvm is a popular way to run Node.js. It allows you to easily switch the Node.js version, and install new versions to try and easily rollback if something breaks, for example. As I clearly said, brew has never been run as root (on this machine or ever by me in general). Also, as I showed, I cleaned out all the root-owned files, re-installed node (as a normal user), and then I found new root-owned files. Installing Node with Homebrew. With all of the above said, this is why I’m a fan of using Homebrew to install Node and then, in turn, using Node to install packages such as Gulp. First, make sure everything is good to go on your system, run the following commands.
Official packages for all the major platforms are available at https://nodejs.org/en/download/.
One very convenient way to install Node.js is through a package manager. In this case, every operating system has its own.
On macOS, Homebrew is the de-facto standard, and - once installed - allows you to install Node.js very easily, by running this command in the CLI:
Other package managers for Linux and Windows are listed in https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/
nvm is a popular way to run Node.js. It allows you to easily switch the Node.js version, and install new versions to try and easily rollback if something breaks, for example.
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It is also very useful to test your code with old Node.js versions.
See https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm for more information about this option.
My suggestion is to use the official installer if you are just starting out and you don't use Homebrew already, otherwise, Homebrew is my favorite solution.
In any case, when Node.js is installed you'll have access to the node executable program in the command line.
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