{"id":2904,"date":"2019-09-20T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2019-09-20T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T22:52:57","slug":"node-js-how-to-update-node-and-npm-to-the-latest-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/2019\/09\/20\/node-js-how-to-update-node-and-npm-to-the-latest-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Node.js: How to update Node and NPM to the latest versions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can check to see what versions of Node<\/code> and NPM<\/code> you have with these commands: node -v<\/code> npm -v<\/code>. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To update NPM, you can do that at the command line with this command:
npm install -g npm<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The output should look something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A good way to update Node<\/code> is to use Chocolatey. To do this first check to see if you have Chocolatey installed on your machine by running this command at the command line: cinst<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it is installed, the next line will say the version number of Chocolatey. For example: Chocolatey v0.10.8<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To update Node.js you will need to run an elevated Admin level command line. For example, you could use a regular Command Prompt but choose “Run as administrator”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or you could open what I did for this article: “Administrator: Windows PowerShell”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Chocolatey installation confirmed, you only need this command to update Node.js:
cinst nodejs<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Output will look something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now check the versions again to confirm they are updated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can check to see what versions of Node and NPM you have with these commands: node -v npm -v. For example: To update NPM, you can do that at the command line with this command: npm install -g npm The output should look something like this: A good way to update Node is to … Continue reading Node.js: How to update Node and NPM to the latest versions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,205],"tags":[207,58,91],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-javascript-language","category-node-js","tag-chocolatey","tag-node-js","tag-npm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegalaxy.info\/codewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}