Magento 2 Node JS NVM MacOS (Node Version Manager) Setup

Modern Web end Magento is not possible without the NodeJS. More and more merchants using NodeJS over PHP. To have proper LTS node version is really important.

Install NVM

To install or update nvm, you should run the install script. To do that, you may either download and run the script manually, or use the following cURL or Wget command:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.37.0/install.sh | bash

Running either of the above commands downloads a script and runs it. The script clones the nvm repository to ~/.nvm, and attempts to add the source lines from the snippet below to the correct profile file (~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc).

export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

Install Node

Now go over to https://nodejs.org where I see it’s telling me the latest stable release is v10.15.0 LTS. I see there is a v11.8 Current with all the latest features, but I’m not using that one today.

So I simply use the terminal and nvm to install it with

nvm install 10.15.0

I’ll set the current version I want to use to the same

nvm use 10.15.0

Check node version

node -v

output:

yehor.shytikov % node -v
v14.15.0