node
Installs a node
binary into your project, which because npm
runs scripts with the local ./node_modules/.bin
in the PATH
ahead of the system copy means you can have a local version of node that is different than your system's, and manage node as a normal dependency.Warning: don't install this globally with npm 2.
npm@2
immediately removes node, then can't run the scripts that make this work.Use
npm i node@lts
Use with npx
npx node@4 myscript.js
This will run
myscript.js
with the latest version of node from the v4 major.Using the shell auto-fallback of npx, you can even do it like so:
node@4 myscript.js