ehmicky/get-node

Download a specific version of Node.js.

The Node.js release is downloaded, uncompressed and untared to an executable file ready to run.

Features

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 or package.json (engines.node field)

Example

import getNode from 'get-node'

// Download a specific Node.js release
const { path, version } = await getNode('8')
console.log(path) // /home/user/.cache/nve/8.17.0/node
console.log(version) // 8.17.0

// Download Node.js latest release
const { path, version } = await getNode('latest')
console.log(path) // /home/user/.cache/nve/16.3.0/node
console.log(version) // 16.3.0

// Any version range can be used
await getNode('8.12.0')
await getNode('<7')

// Download latest LTS Node.js version
await getNode('lts')