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Installing nvm and the latest Node JS
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install-nvm.md

nvm is a version manager for node.js, It helps to easily switch between various versions of node very easily.

Install nvm and node

Windows

Follow the steps here.

Linux/Mac

  1. Download the nvm install script via cURL:
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash
  1. Ensure that nvm was installed correctly with the following command. It should give you the version of the nvm installed.
nvm --version
  1. Now install the latest node.
nvm install node
nvm use node
  1. To check if node was installed properly, run:
node -v

Install package manager

pnpm is a very fast, disk space efficient package manager. To install it globally run:

npm -g i pnpm

The -g flag represents that this pnpm will be isntalled globally

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