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How to install multiple node versions on the same machine
Our headless CMS, Strapi requires node version
<= 14.x.x
and we had node version 15 installed in our development machine. So that brought a question to my mind, is there a way like python venv for node to install different versions in the same machine. After doing a quick investigation, I found nvm
node version manager that lets you have different versions of node on the same machine and switching between them.curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
or
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
To verify installation run
nvm --version
To list available versions, you can run
nvm ls-remote
To install specific version you can use
nvm install VERSION
for examplenvm install 12.18.4
You can use
nvm use
to switch to a specific version. For examplenvm use 12.18.4