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Tutorial Difficulty Level Node package manager, or npm, helps you discover, share, and use code, along with managing dependencies.
Node comes with npm pre-installed, but the manager is updated more frequently than Node. Run npm –v to see which version you have, then npm install npm@latest –g to install the newest npm update. Run npm –v again if you want to make sure npm updated correctly.
To update Node, you’ll need npm’s handy n module. Run this code to clear npm’s cache, install n, and install the latest stable version of Node:
sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n stable
To install the latest release, use n latest. Alternatively, you can run n #.#.# to get a specific Node version.
Check your new node version with
node --version
