NPM-INSTALL(5)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Install — download and install node and npm

okay so hi bestie, welcome to npm-install(5) 💖 this is literally the "how do I even get node and npm onto my machine" page, and the answer is very slay but also please read the warning part, k? 🫶

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🍓 Description

To publish packages to the public npm registry and install them from it, you must have Node.js and the npm command line interface installed — using either a Node version manager or a Node installer. that's the whole situation.

We strongly recommend using a Node version manager to install Node.js and npm. We do not recommend using a Node installer, and here's the tea 🫖: the Node installation process installs npm in a directory with local permissions, and that can cause permissions errors when you run npm packages globally. so like… not the move, ngl. 😭

✨ Overview ✨

• (Checking your version of npm and Node.js)
• (Using a Node version manager to install Node.js and npm)
• (Using a Node installer to install Node.js and npm)

🦋 Checking your version of npm and Node.js

wanna know if you already have Node.js and npm installed, and which version you're on? run these, exactly these:

node -v
npm -v

that's it, that's the check 💅

🧚 Using a Node version manager to install Node.js and npm

Node version managers let you install multiple versions of Node.js and npm on your system and switch between them — so you can test your applications on multiple versions of npm and make sure they work for users on different versions. highkey iconic behavior 👑

you can search for them on GitHub: https://github.com/search?q=node+version+manager+archived%3Afalse&type=repositories&ref=advsearch

🔥 Using a Node installer to install Node.js and npm

if a Node version manager just isn't happening for you, you can use a Node installer to install both Node.js and npm on your system.

• Node.js installer — https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• NodeSource installer — https://github.com/nodesource/distributions. if you use Linux, we recommend that you use a NodeSource installer.

🌈 macOS or Windows Node installers

on macOS or Windows? use one of the installers from the Node.js download page: https://nodejs.org/en/download/. be sure to install the version labeled LTS ⭐ — other versions have not yet been tested with npm.

💜 Linux or other operating systems Node installers

on Linux or another operating system? use one of these:

• NodeSource installer — https://github.com/nodesource/distributions (recommended ✅)
• one of the installers on the Node.js download page — https://nodejs.org/en/download/

or see this page: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ to install npm for Linux in the way many Linux developers prefer 🐧✨

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and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 this was npm-install(5), served fresh from npm@12.2.1 — go forth and install responsibly, mwah 💋💖