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Downgrade NodeJS with Brew on Mac OS
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- Name
- Avasdream
- @avasdream_
I recently had to downgrade my nodejs installation to v16.00 because version 18.x introduced some breaking changes to dependencies. Here is how this was done with brew:
- Current Node version:
node --version
- Search for the desired NodeJS version:
brew search node@16
- Unlink the current node version
brew unlink node
- Install the new version of Node:
brew install node@16
- Link the node version. Test with the
--dry-run
flag to get a list of all files which will be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run node@16
brew link --overwrite node@16