Solution for Managing Multiple Versions of Node on MacOS

This article goes over solutions for managing multiple versions of Node.js on macOS. We'll start with a solution that I felt was straightforward and easily manageable. This is a living article and other solutions may be added over time. This solution was pulled from

Assumptions

• HomeBrew is installed
• general understanding of bash/zsh profiles

Install Desired Node Versions

brew install node@<version>

Example

brew install node@16

Useful CLI commands to check work

Check node version

node --version

Check node install location

which node

Use Alsias to switch Node versions

Add and alias to .zshrc for each Node version installed.

Copy the following to .zshrc

alias node16='export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@16/bin:$PATH"'
alias node14='export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@14/bin:$PATH"'

or from terminal

echo -n alias node13='export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@16/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo -n alias node13='export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@14/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Example

node16
 node -v # v16.11.0