Install npm (Node.js Package Manager) on Windows (w/o using Node.js MSI)

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To install npm on windows just unzip the npm archive where node is. See the docs for more detail.

npm is shipped with node, that is how you should install it. nvm is only for changing node versions and does not install npm. A cleaner way to use npm and nvm is to first install node as it is (with npm), then install the nvm package by npm install nvm

https://nodejs.org/download/ . The page has Windows Installer (.msi) as well as other installers and binaries.Download and install for windows.

Node.js comes with NPM.

NPM is located in the directory where Node.js is installed.

I used quite @Eyuel method:

• Download the nodejs msi from https://nodejs.org/en/#download
• Download npm zip from github https://github.com/npm/npm
• Extract the msi (with 7 Zip) in a directory "node"
• Set the PATH environment variable to add the "node" directory
• Extract the zip file from npm in a different directory (not under node directory)
• CD to the npm directory and run the command node cli.js install npm -gf

Now you should have node + npm working, use theses commands to check: node --version and npm --version

Update 27/07/2017 : I noticed that the latest version of node 8.2.1 with the latest version of npm are quite different from the one I was using at the time of this answer. The install with theses versions won't work. It is working with node 6.11.1 and npm 5.2.3. Also if you are running with a proxy don't forget this to connect on internet :

• export http_proxy=http://proxy:8080
• export https_proxy=http://proxy:8080
• npm config set proxy http://proxy:8080

I also needed to install npm in Windows and got it through the Chocolatey pacakage manager. For those who haven't heard about it, Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, that gives you the convenience of an apt-get in Windows environments. To get it go to https://chocolatey.org/ where there's a PowerShell script to download it and install it. After that you can run:

chocolatey install npm

and you're good to go.

Note that the standalone npm is no longer being updated and the last version that is out there is known to have problems on Windows. Another option you can look at is extracting npm from the MSI using LessMSI.