Install NVM on Windows (Node Version Manager)

In this video we show you how to install NVM on Windows with the windows NVM installer.

NOTE: I recently got a warning that NPM was out of date and to upgrade to 9.x.x. I haven't done it yet because I haven't gotten the warning again, but I found a few options to do so on Stack Overflow that have minor conflicts. Here's a few ways you can try to update NPM when using NVM for Windows

Option 2: Two stack overflow posts with a set of commands (See "Ryan Shillington")

The command lists slightly conflict (one was pre-npx, the other didn't remove the old files), so I combined the two and removed the duplication to end up with this:

cd %APPDATA%\nvm\ (will just cd again to the newest)
move npm npm-old
move npx npx-old
cd node_modules\
move npm npm-old
cd npm-old\bin

cd %APPDATA%\nvm\ (cd again)
rm npm-old
rm npx-old
cd node_modules\
rm -rf npm-old

I have not tried this command set to update NPM yet, but I will get around to it when I get the warning again. Good luck!

[DhondupFilm]

you r life saver, as a new window user, had difficult installing nvm and node. looks like i can finally start writing my first react project!

[kluchtube]

hey man great video i just installed NVM really helpful tool. keep up the good work

[atlantic_love]

It is my understanding that NVM is how you install Node.js and NPM? I am very hierarchial in thinking, it's weird. I would like to manually install NVM in a specific location, and then install Node.js and NPM in specific directories, and then access them (or the modules I install with npm) from other specific directories. How do I do this?

[ayeshaejaz]

this kinda worked but kinda didn't because i had to go add nvm to my env variables manually first

[nguyenminhngoc-jity]

how to update nvm version, i want to update nvm to version 1.1.11 ?

[ruuma]

i tried the same thing and it didnt work well, especially when I'am using nvm use 18.18.2 and then do the node -v it just back to the default (18.15.0) even tho nvm use works properly. hopefully u can help me with my case. I've tried some stackoverflow solutions(include using alias default) but didnt help

[RiteshKumar-udbf]

can you pls tell me how did you set that background theme in your windows taskbar?