Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Using Chocolatey for managing NodeJS

What is Chocolatey? Let read here: https://chocolatey.org/about
Install & Upgrade Chocolatey => read here: https://chocolatey.org/install


1. Install NodeJS
Open CMD and the following command:

choco install nodejs -y

It will install latest NodeJS version and npm together.
For installing  long term support (LTS) version of NodeJS, run the command:

choco install nodejs-lts -y

2. Upgrade NodeJS
Run the command:

choco upgrade nodejs -y

It will upgrade to latest NodeJS + npm. In case you want to upgrade npm only, let run PowerShell as Administrator and execute below commands:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force
npm install -g npm-windows-upgrade
npm-windows-upgrade
Or

npm-windows-upgrade -p -v latest

3. Uninstall NodeJS
Run the command:

choco uninstall nodejs -y

I love chocolatey ❤

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