How To Install Different Versions Of NodeJS

There are many reasons why you might need a different version of NodeJS.

For instance, running an app that relies on an older version of NodeJS.

NVM is a NodeJS version manager that makes it possible to do just that.

Installing NVM

Follow this section of the ReadMe doc to install NVM.

Let's say we would like to install version 12 of NodeJS. We would run the following command to do so:


01: nvm install 12

Once you have different versions of NodeJS installed you can switch between them using the command below:


01: nvm use 12

You can also check which version of NodeJS you are running at any point in time:


01: node -v

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