
I guess Homebrew next (but I then end up with multiple installations of already present system resources)įinally Macports (which USES my existing system resources…available apps. The easist option to just do it, would be the stand alone installer. SO I’m off and will be back later to have a look and see who advises what? Its now Horsey O’ clock on Planet *frozen Wales (now with added rain) So in order to play with this fine new plugin by, Ive to do this.īUT… not sure about using the actual node installer as it uses SUDO for quite a bit of the install… Where as Macports uses my system versions… Homebrew looks like the new kid on the block compared to Macports (which has far more stuff)Īnd I’m aware that Brew, REPLICATES and adds stuff that are already on my mac, but keeps them seperate and different versions (ie, SQL, Apache etc) Let's say you are trying to run a Node project and the project works correctly (for e.g) Node version 14 but your Node version is 10.Or Macports… I mean, I dont even know which of these… It just manages them and switches to anyone at will. Just that it does not uninstall any version. Instead of manually downloading and uninstalling the version of Nodejs nvm does it behind the hood for us. It allows us to install and switch between different versions of Nodejs. Nvm like we have learned is a Node Version Manager. The tool is called nvm, Node Version Manager. The answer is NO because a brilliant does all the versioning work for us.

So we might just have to install the right Nodejs version, but do we have to install and re-install Nodejs versions all the time? Now, Nodejs got better and better with each new version released but sometimes these versions can be a problem, and we might see ourselves running incompatible Nodejs in our projects. To run Nodejs all you need to do is to install the executable and off you go!

We can create mobile apps, and desktop apps now with JavaScript. Finally, JavaScript ceased from being a browser-only language to an all-platform language. The majority of big companies turned towards Nodejs and many JavaScript frameworks were birthed. Since then, software development has not been the same. Nodejs became a game changer in the software development world after its initial release in May 2009.
