What is the preferred way of installing NodeJS?

• volta

  84 9,936 9.1 Rust

  Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

  

I use https://volta.sh to manage the NodeJS versions in projects. It has a pin feature where it will define a section to record the NodeJS version and yarn version used the the package.json so every time I navigated to the project it will pick up the right version.

• Chocolatey

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  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

Windows -> Chocolately https://chocolatey.org/ choco install nodejs

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• n

  50 18,492 6.5 Shell

  Node version management

I prefer this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/n

• nvm

  313 75,557 7.8 Shell

  Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

  

Usually nvm, but lately I use volta more and more.

• asdf

  340 20,393 7.9 Shell

  Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

  

• distributions

  54 13,231 7.6 Shell

  NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions

  

Later on i discovered this script made by NodeSource that installs Node via their own repositories and then almost stopped installing binaries manually, i still do it though, but whenever possible i try to use that script

• js-untar

  3 71 0.0 JavaScript

  Library for reading tar files in the browser.

  

let fileSystemHandle = await showSaveFilePicker({suggestedName: 'node'}), writable, writer; await import('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pako/2.0.4/pako.min.js'); try { await import('https://unpkg.com/js-untar@2.0.0/build/dist/untar.js'); } catch (e) { console.log(e); } finally { // https://stackoverflow.com/a/65448758 const request = await fetch('node-v16.14.2-linux-x64.tar.gz'); const buffer = await request.arrayBuffer(); // Download gzipped tar file and get ArrayBuffer const decompressed = await pako.inflate(buffer); // Decompress gzip using pako const files = await untar(decompressed.buffer); // Get ArrayBuffer from the Uint8Array pako returns, untar, js-untar returns a list of files (See https://github.com/InvokIT/js-untar#file-object for details) writable = await fileSystemHandle.createWritable(); writer = writable.getWriter(); const file = files.find( ({ name }) => name === 'node-v16.14.2-linux-x64/bin/node' ).buffer; await writer.write(file); await writer.close(); }

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