You can use '$(brew -prefix nvm)/nvm.sh' instead of '/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh' but it will be slower. Generally, environment variables are going in the file ~/.bash_profile if you are using BASH or in the ~/.zshenv file if you are using ZSH, but it will work also if you want to put the code below in the file ~/.bashrc for BASH or ~/.zshrc for ZSH. To check if everything is working as expected the command bellow print the node version: nvm run node -versionįinally, we want to execute NVM in every shell session, so let's create two user environment variables NVM_DIR and NVM_HOMEBREW. The previous command is also useful if you want to change from different Node.js versions. Start using the node version installed with NVMĪfter you installed the node version that you are looking it will be active after this command:.There are different node versions that you can install if you want to install the last version is very simple just using the command:īut I work with the long-term support version and the command to install the last LTS version is the command below: nvm install -lts The first thing we need to do is create a folder for the current user. Install NVM is very easy just with this command:

So these are the steps to install NVM with Homebrew: NOTE: install NVM with Homebrew is not officially supported. And I usually install most applications using homebrew. Node version manager is a script to manage multiple active node.js versions.

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