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Install NodeJS and NPM on Mac

Published: 2019-10-19

This will install node v10.16.3 and npm v6.9.0.

  1. Download tarball from NodeJS downloads

     curl -O -L https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.16.3/node-v10.16.3-darwin-x64.tar.gz

  2. Make dir then extract tarball

     mkdir -p ~/bin/nodejs
 tar -v -x -C ~/bin/nodejs -f node-v10.16.3-darwin-x64.tar.gz

  3. Set environment variables in your bash config file, e.g. ~/.bash_profile

     export NODEJS_HOME=$HOME/bin/nodejs/node-v10.16.3-darwin-x64
 export PATH=$NODEJS_HOME/bin:$PATH

  4. Source bash config file

     source ~/.bash_profile

  5. Confirm installation

     node --version
 npm --version