How to manage multiple Node.js versions on macOS X

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How to manage multiple Node.js versions on macOS X

How to manage multiple Node.js versions on macOS X using homebrew.

https://notiz.dev/blog/how-to-manage-multiple-node-versions-on-mac

[djam90]

You saved my life with this article!

[hash9211]

Thank You!!!! :D

[idea2pixels]

literal facepalm.

[jessicadever1]

Hi! I'm still having trouble and wondering if you can help. I've gone through your steps, but it still says the version is 16.4.0, when I want to be using 14.17.0. Any suggestions? Thank you!

[Mars-2030]

thanks this great and working fine

[baharalidurrani]

Awesome 👏
A really simple method for macOS 🚀
If you want a version to be loaded by default, just run the following command with the desired version for example node@16
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@16/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

[theigor]

just a heads up that on an M1 mac and with latest homebrew, the location is a little different:

alias node16='export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/node@16/bin:$PATH"'

[MarsNunez]

Thank you man, it helped me so much!

[iyarych]

You can actually easily switch node with brew link command like this:

brew link --overwrite node@14

This switches both node and npm:

~ % node -v                      
v14.21.1
~ % npm -v                       
6.14.17

[iyarych]

However if you need to do that rather frequently you might as well consider alias variant because that's going to be more efficient.

[fs-engineer]

txs man, it's useful article

[anhtuank7c]

Thank you so much. This article saved my day. I'm using Mac M1 Chip and got some unexpected issue while using nvm to switch between node version.
This is awesome.

[baharalidurrani]

I used this method for a long time but now it stopped working for v16 and v18 as those are deprecated.

❯ node16
❯ node --version
dyld[2279]: Library not loaded: '/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.73.dylib'
  Referenced from: '/usr/local/Cellar/node@16/16.20.2/bin/node'
  Reason: tried: '/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.73.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.73.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libicui18n.73.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/74.2/lib/libicui18n.73.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.73.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libicui18n.73.dylib' (no such file)
[1]    2279 abort      node --version

May be I move towards nvm as mentioned: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager