In the installer select I accept the agreement and click Next.Click on nvm-setup.exe and the installer will open up. Click on nvm-setup.zip and the download will start.Īfter the download, we have to extract the nvm-setup.zip file, and open the extracted map, here you will find the nvm-setup.exe. Let's start by downloading the installer, by going to this website nvm-windows, and clicking on the latest version, in my case, it is 1.1.18.Īfter you clicked on the version, scroll down all the way and you will find the installer. You can use this tool to both install Node and also switch between Node versions. There is an easy tool that will solve this issue, called Node version manager for Windows (NVM). Although, many Windows devs use WSL, which NVM also works with (and supposedly MSYS and Cygwin too, but I never tried that).If you are working on multiple projects that have different Node versions, it can become quite cumbersome to keep installing and uninstalling different Node versions. NVM is also cross-platform (works on Linux too), just happens to not work on 'standard' Windows as NVM works via environment variables (and aims to be POSIX compliant), something Windows is notoriously shitty at. That's actually a pretty nifty feature, sounds like a good idea and might give Volta a try because I've ended up in that situation many times (or worse, upgrading node and now missing bunch of binaries without thinking about it). > remembers the version used when globally installing (npm -g) Just because the author hasn't updated the version since version 4 while you're on version 5, doesn't mean it doesn't work on version 5, just that the author hasn't updated it. NVM does not read the engine version from package.json, as that version is not the _required_ version but rather the suggested version.

NVM also changes the runtime automatically based on the version in. It creates a proxy executable which checks package.json, nvmrc, and automatically chooses proper node version nvm allows to install and switch node versions, volta does it automatically.

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