How to brew install specific version of Node?

Question

For example I want to install either 7.9 or 7.10 but want to avoid Node 8 due to the webpack node-sass breaking bug.

When I run brew search node this is what I see:

❯ brew search node leafnode llnode node ✔ node-build > [email protected] [email protected] node@4 node@6 nodebrew nodeenv nodenv caskroom/cask/node-profiler

If you meant "node" specifically: It was migrated from caskroom/cask to homebrew/core. You can access it again by running: brew tap homebrew/core

There is node which is checked (my current version is v7.4.0 then [email protected], [email protected], node@4 and node@6?

The reason I can't just fully upgrade to 8 is node-sass won't work in webpack.

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Just installed NVM and got this crazy error log:

=> nvm source string already in /Users/leongaban/.zshrc => Appending bash_completion source string to /Users/leongaban/.zshrc npm ERR! missing: is-path-cwd@^1.0.0, required by [email protected] npm ERR! missing: is-path-in-cwd@^1.0.0, required by [email protected] npm ERR! missing: p-map@^1.1.1, required by [email protected] npm ERR! missing: pify@^3.0.0, required by [email protected] npm ERR! missing: rimraf@^2.2.8, required by [email protected] npm ERR! missing: bluebird@^3.1.1, required by [email protected] npm ERR! missing: clone@^1.0.2, required by [email protected]

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=> You currently have modules installed globally with `npm`. These will no => longer be linked to the active version of Node when you install a new node => with `nvm`; and they may (depending on how you construct your `$PATH`) => override the binaries of modules installed with `nvm`: 

If I'm reading this right, does this mean I can't use npm to globally install packages anymore and have to use nvm?

Update

I added the export lines to my .zshrc bash (I don't use bash_profile)

❯ nvm --version 0.33.2 

Answer 1

There are two ways in the decision to use a different version of the Node. Second way is more convenient and practical in my opinion.

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First way:

Install other Node version(for example 14) with using:

brew install	brew unlink	brew link
brew install - github	brew unlink - github	brew link - github

brew install node@14 brew unlink node brew link node@14 node -v 

PS You may use brew link with flag --overwrite, for example:

brew link --overwrite node@14 

PS2 Why unlink and then link again?

Documentation:

Remove symlinks for formula from Homebrew's prefix. This can be useful for temporarily disabling a formula:

brew unlink formula && commands && brew link formula

In other words:

if you have both node and node@14 installed, where node is other version(..,15 or 16), so, for set active version 14:

you must unlink node	and then link to new installed version 14
brew unlink node	brew link node@14

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Second way:

Install Node Version Manager(nvm) and select Node version:

nvm - github nvm - home brew

brew install nvm  mkdir ~/.nvm  export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"     [ -s "$(brew --prefix)/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "$(brew --prefix)/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm     [ -s "$(brew --prefix)/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && . "$(brew --prefix)/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" # This loads nvm bash_completion  nvm install 14  nvm use 14  nvm list 

Answer 2

If versions on homebrew/code are defined right, you must also be able to brew install [email protected] for example.

You can also install multiple versions and select which one you want to use with the brew switch command.

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Anyway, I'd recommend using nvm, which can be installed through Homebrew. Although, the version on brew is buggy and they don't plan fixing it.