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.
npm i node@lts
npxnpx 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
Major thanks to Kat Marchán for late-night problem solving, and to CJ Silverio and Maciej Małecki for egging me on way back when I had the idea to package node up this way. It does turn out if you ask "why not?!" once in a while something fun happens.
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The npm package node receives a total of 467,872 weekly downloads. As such, node popularity was classified as popular.
We found that node demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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