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Outdated "Downloading and installing Node.js and npm" #1459

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MikeMcC399 opened this issue Jan 28, 2025 · 0 comments
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Outdated "Downloading and installing Node.js and npm" #1459

MikeMcC399 opened this issue Jan 28, 2025 · 0 comments

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MikeMcC399 commented Jan 28, 2025

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URL: https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm
Title: Downloading and installing Node.js and npm
Source page: https://github.com/npm/documentation/blob/main/content/getting-started/configuring-your-local-environment/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm.mdx

The page separately links to

The https://nodejs.org/en/download/ has however been substantially changed and the old https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ page no longer exists.

Instead https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ redirects to https://nodejs.org/en/download/.

The version managers recommended on https://nodejs.org/en/download/ differ from the ones recommended by the npm docs.

Node.js recommends now only:

Version manager \ OS Windows macOS Linux
nvm - yes yes
fnm yes yes yes
Docker yes yes yes
Brew - yes yes

Also the page refers to the outdated term "OS X". This was rebranded in 2016 to "macOS" with the Sierra release - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS.

Suggestions

  1. npm should decide whether it wants to keep its own suggestions or align with Node.js suggestions for Node.js version managers
  2. Separate links to the https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ should be removed / consolidated to use only the active https://nodejs.org/en/download/ page
  3. Rename "OS X" references to "macOS"
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