Download previous node version

The active Node. On macOS with Homebrew you can install the n formula. Or on macOS with MacPorts you can install the n port :.

As a result, both n itself and all Node. See the n-install repo for more details. Execute n on its own to view your downloaded versions, and install the selected version. If the active node version does not change after install, try opening a new shell in case seeing a stale version. There are a variety of ways of specifying the target Node.

Most commands use the latest matching version, and n ls-remote lists multiple matching versions. Numeric version numbers can be complete or incomplete, with an optional leading v. There is an auto label to read the target version from a file in the current directory, or any parent directory.

The engine label looks for a package. Requires an installed version of node , and uses npx semver to resolve complex ranges. These Node. The last version form is for specifying other releases available using the name of the remote download folder optionally followed by the complete or incomplete version. Remove the installed Node. This can be useful to revert to the system version of node if in a different location , or if you no longer wish to use node and npm, or are switching to a different way of managing them.

There are three commands for working directly with your downloaded versions of Node. A Node. If you would like to use a different Node. The most common example is from users in China who can define:.

If the custom mirror requires authentication you can add the url-encoded username and password into the URL. To get the latest LTS version of node and migrate your existing installed packages, use. If you want to install a new version of Node. This will first use "nvm version node" to identify the current version you're migrating packages from. Then it resolves the new version to install from the remote server and installs it. Lastly, it runs "nvm reinstall-packages" to reinstall the npm packages from your prior version of Node to the new one.

You can also install and migrate npm packages from specific versions of Node like this:. Note that reinstalling packages explicitly does not update the npm version — this is to ensure that npm isn't accidentally upgraded to a broken version for the new node version.

If you've already gotten an error to the effect of "npm does not support Node. You can add anything npm would accept as a package argument on the command line. If you want to install a new version of io. The same guidelines mentioned for migrating npm packages in node are applicable to io.

If you want to use the system-installed version of node, you can use the special default alias "system":. You can set five colors that will be used to display version and alias information. These colors replace the default colors. Initial colors are: g b y r e. For example, if you want to use cyan, magenta, green, bold red and bold yellow, add the following line:. Note that using nvm in multiple shell tabs with this environment variable enabled can cause race conditions.

You can create a. Afterwards, nvm use , nvm install , nvm exec , nvm run , and nvm which will use the version specified in the. For example, to make nvm default to the latest 5. If you use a Windows cmd development environment, eg the. Remove them. In other words, running nvm use et. The contents of a. No trailing spaces are allowed, and the trailing newline is required. You can use avn to deeply integrate into your shell and automatically invoke nvm when changing directories.

Please report issues to the avn team. If you prefer a lighter-weight solution, the recipes below have been contributed by nvm users. They are not supported by the nvm maintainers. We are, however, accepting pull requests for more examples.

This alias would search 'up' from your current directory in order to detect a. If it finds it, it will switch to that version; if not, it will use the default version.

Tests are written in Urchin. Install Urchin and other dependencies like so:. There are slow tests and fast tests. The slow tests do things like install node and check that the right versions are used. The fast tests fake this to test things like aliases and uninstalling. From the root of the nvm git repository, run the fast tests like this:.

Put the above sourcing line just below the sourcing line for nvm in your profile. In order to provide the best performance and other optimisations , nvm will download and install pre-compiled binaries for Node and npm when you run nvm install X.

There is a -s flag for nvm install which requests nvm download Node source and compile it locally. If installing nvm on Alpine Linux is still what you want or need to do, you should be able to achieve this by running the following from you Alpine Linux shell:. The Node project has some desire but no concrete plans due to the overheads of building, testing and support to offer Alpine-compatible binaries. As a potential alternative, mhart a Node contributor has some Docker images for Alpine Linux with Node and optionally, npm, pre-installed.

To make the development and testing work easier, we have a Dockerfile for development usage, which is based on Ubuntu This will package your current nvm repository with our pre-defined development environment into a docker image named nvm-dev , once it's built with success, validate your image via docker images :.

Please note that it'll take about 8 minutes to build the image and the image size would be about MB, so it's not suitable for production usage. For more information and documentation about docker, please refer to its official website:. When switching to a different version, nvm will make the node instance in your terminal symlink to the proper Node.

So, if you now run:. You can delete an alias by running:. The entry in green, with an arrow on the left, is the current version in use. Try executing the following now:. Version managers such as rbenv allow you to specify a Ruby version on a per-project basis by writing that version to a.

This is kind of possible with nvm in that, if you create a. Now, when you change into a directory with a. You can run a command directly for an installed version without switching the node variable:.

This might be useful when configuring a text editor plugin that needs to know where your current version of Node lives. It enables a concern-free installation and easy switching between different versions, saving time for what really matters. A thank you note to Tim Caswell , the creator of nvm, and also to Corey Butler for the nvm for Windows support, and of course to those contributing to these great projects.

Your work is greatly appreciated by the Node.