This article is intended to take you through the best way to get node.js LTS running on your windows machine at ease.
Node.js
This is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment; that runs on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, etc. It's not exclusively designed for the Backend as it also feeds the Frontend with API services and then serves it in real-time.
Steps to get node.js installed
- Follow the link to download nvm nvm repository
- Download the nvm-setup.zip
- Open the zip file, to extract the nvm-setup.exe file.
- install the setup as administrator. the Windows installation wizard will prompt you.
Once the installation is complete. Open your CMD, Gitbash, or PowerShell to list versions currently running or installed. with Windows-nvm (nvm ls) if non, continue the process.
Check for available versions of node.js to use with (nvm list available)
From the list above chose the recommended version for you. The latest stable release LTS of node.js is highly Recommended. Let us install the LTS version number with(nvm install 16.15.1).
You can now list the versions of node.js that are installed with (nvm ls)
Use the Windows-nvm command. (nvm use 16.15.1) to set or activate the current version to be used, you can as well switch version
Finally, verify that node.js is installed and the version with (npm --version).
With this you can confidently run all your ng, npx, npm command for Angular, React, etc... smoothly.
Error Handling
Incase you've installed node.js without nvm and you're experiencing errors, try installing it now with nvm. if the error persists, kindly navigate to your local(c:) -> program file -> locate node.js folder and delete it or rename it and continue the installation.
Hope this helps... Cheer
Top comments (5)
I would suggest using asdf-vm, sooner or later you will have more tools to manage versions of
Wow... that sounds great.
It is, you should deifinitely try it out :)
nvm is such a useful tool switching Node versions on the fly is a piece of cake.
Thanks