Download a specific version of Node.js (CLI).
The Node.js release is downloaded, uncompressed and untared to an executable file ready to run.
Fast:
- the download is cached
- the best compression algorithm available on your machine is used
- everything is streamed
Reliable:
- the binary is checked against official checksums
- can be safely run concurrently
- atomic writes
Features include:
- Linux/Mac/Windows support
- works with old Node.js versions
- progress bar
- using version ranges
- specifying a mirror website for nodejs.org
- helpful error messages
- can guess the current project's version using its
.nvmrc
orpackage.json
(engines.node
field)
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# Download Node.js latest release
$ get-node
/home/user/.cache/nve/16.3.0/x64/bin/node
$ /home/user/.cache/nve/16.3.0/x64/bin/node
Welcome to Node.js v16.3.0.
Type ".help" for more information.
> .exit
# Download a specific Node.js release
$ get-node 8
/home/user/.cache/nve/8.17.0/x64/bin/node
$ /home/user/.cache/nve/8.17.0/x64/bin/node
> process.version
'v8.17.0'
> .exit
# Any version range can be used
$ get-node 8.12.0
$ get-node "<7"
# Download latest Node.js version
$ get-node latest
# Download latest LTS Node.js version
$ get-node lts
# Download Node.js version from `~/.nvmrc` or the current process version
$ get-node global
# Download current directory's Node.js version using its `.nvmrc` or `package.json` (`engines.node` field)
$ get-node local
# Download Node.js version from a specific file like `.nvmrc` or `package.json`
$ get-node /path/to/.nvmrc
# Specify the output directory
$ get-node --output=/home/user/.cache/node_releases/ 8
/home/user/.cache/node_releases/8.17.0/x64/bin/node
$ /home/user/.cache/node_releases/8.17.0/x64/bin/node --version
v8.17.0
# Use a mirror website
$ get-node --mirror=https://npmmirror.com/mirrors/node 8
/home/user/.cache/nve/8.17.0/x64/bin/node
# Do not use the cached list of available Node.js versions
$ get-node --fetch
# Always use the cached list of available Node.js versions even if it's more
# than one hour old
$ get-node --no-fetch
# Specify the CPU architecture
$ get-node --arch=s390x 8
/home/user/.cache/nve/8.17.0/s390x/bin/node
npm install -g get-node-cli
node >=18.18.0
must be globally installed. However any Node version can be
downloaded.
To use this programmatically (from Node.js) instead, please check
get-node
.
get-node [OPTIONS] [VERSION]
VERSION
can be:
- any version range such as
12
,12.6.0
or<12
-
latest
: Latest available Node version -
lts
: Latest LTS Node version -
global
: Global Node version- Using the home directory
.nvmrc
orpackage.json
(engines.node
field) - Some similar files used by other Node.js version managers are also searched for
- If nothing is found, defaults to the current process's Node version
- Using the home directory
-
local
: Current directory's Node version- Using the current directory or parent directories
.nvmrc
,package.json
(engines.node
field) or similar files - Defaults to the
global
version
- Using the current directory or parent directories
- a file path towards a
.nvmrc
,package.json
(engines.node
field) or similar files
Alias: -o
Type: string
Default: global cache directory
such as /home/user/.cache/nve/
.
Output directory for the node
executable.
It the directory already has a node
executable, no download is performed. This
enables caching.
Alias: -p
Type: boolean
Default: true
Whether to show a progress bar.
Alias: -m
Type: string
Default: https://nodejs.org/dist
Base URL to retrieve Node.js binaries. Can be customized (for example
https://npmmirror.com/mirrors/node
).
The following environment variables can also be used: NODE_MIRROR
,
NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR
, N_NODE_MIRROR
or NODIST_NODE_MIRROR
.
Alias: -f
Type: boolean
Default: undefined
The list of available Node.js versions is cached for one hour by default. With:
-
--fetch
: the cache will not be used -
--no-fetch
: the cache will be used even if it's older than one hour
Alias: -a
Type: string
Default:
process.arch
Node.js binary's CPU architecture. This is useful for example when you're on x64 but would like to run Node.js x32.
All the values from
process.arch
are
allowed except mips and mipsel.
Alias: -c
Type: string
Default: process.cwd()
When using the local
alias, start looking for a Node.js version file
from this directory.
-
get-node
: Likeget-node-cli
but programmatically (from Node.js) -
nve
: Run a specific Node.js version (CLI) -
nvexeca
: Run a specific Node.js version (programmatic) -
preferred-node-version
: Get the preferred Node.js version of a project or user -
node-version-alias
: Resolve Node.js version aliases likelatest
,lts
orerbium
-
normalize-node-version
: Normalize and validate Node.js versions -
all-node-versions
: List all available Node.js versions -
fetch-node-website
: Fetch releases on nodejs.org -
global-cache-dir
: Get the global cache directory
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