WSL install Node

wsl_install_node.md

The apt-get version of node is incredibly old, and installing a new copy is a bit of a runaround.

So here's how you can use NVM to quickly get a fresh copy of Node on your new Bash on Windows install

$ touch ~/.bashrc
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash
// restart bash
$ nvm install --lts

Once you've done that you'll get a nice:

$ node --version
$ v12.18.3

Thanks for this.

A "can't miss" tip. Thanks.

Wow, this is amazing. Thanks!

I had some trouble on a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro using this script, but found this instruction by NodeSource to be working well, installing the latest nodejs (v10 currently). It's also just two commands:
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall

Why does the bashrc need to be touched? I'm a designer learning to code so I'm kind of ignorant of this stuff and want to better understand what I'm actually doing with it.

Thanks for this quick tip! I know it's referring to bash, but will I essentially just need to | zsh if I want to use zsh instead of bash?

@devkabiir Ah okay, that makes sense, but if I use zsh should I touch .zshrc instead?

Also as per @aizkhaj 's question

Other node versions can be found here: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall

Nice!

@devkabiir Ah okay, that makes sense, but if I use zsh should I touch .zshrc instead?

Also as per @aizkhaj 's question

I run zsh. Installing nvm with curl | bash updated my .bashrc. I just copy / pasted the 3 lines added at the bottom of .bashrc to .zshrc and ran exec zsh to restart my shell and it all worked fine. The lines should be easy to identify.

I had some trouble on a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro using this script, but found this instruction by NodeSource to be working well, installing the latest nodejs (v10 currently). It's also just two commands:
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall

Thanks for nodesource method!

Micah! Thank you so much for this! I could not for the life of me figure out why things like npx were just missing. ❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks everyone for all the comments. Sorry that GitHub never sends me notifications of Gist comments.

thx quick and easy.

thanks!

Thanks for this!

Thanks!

thanks pal
worked for me : -D

sometimes restart doesn't work. Try: source ~/.bashrc .it works for me.

Or you can run
exec "$SHELL" to do the source and reinit of shell

Thanks, worked like a charm!

Thanks! worked for me.

This rules. Thanks.

thanks for this 👍

Awesome, thanks!!

great gist :) 💯

Thankyou :)

After a bunch of failed attempts I ended up here. This approach totally works.

For the latest curl and installation details:
https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm