It should not be necessary, and will lead to file permission headaches!įurthermore I recommend ESLint over jslint, and have not used jslint in years.
Attempting to upgrade node installed via homebrew has always proven to be a more difficult approach in my experience.Īlso, the biggest thing to point out is that the use of sudo as shown in my npm install of jslint example above is highly discouraged I am fairly certain that homebrew packages should never be installed or interacted with in any way using the superuser. Make a directory for global installations: mkdir /npm-global Configure npm to use the new directory path: npm config set prefix /npm-global Open or create. If you want to change your system node from 8.10 to 10.15, whether on Mac or Windows, simply download the installer from for 10.15 for your OS.
I actually trust this more than the homebrew package itself, because it knows best how to manage the files. My personal workflow is now to use the installer obtained from to install node on systems. I think what I will do is manually build out symlinks inside /usr/local/bin for any programs that I have trouble with and it should be good enough for my purposes.ĮDIT: I'm updating this in 2019, because this old question is popular but now outdated both in terms of my personal workflow and also in terms of how to best go about installing node and managing its various dependencies. I guess in this particular instance it's just a matter of the npm install -g not making the right symlinks in a "proper" location (like /usr/local/bin maybe). It seems like this isn't the right way to do it because if I install something else later (using Homebrew or something) I'll be needing to append it to my zsh startup script to set the path. Where might I be able to find that?Ģ) Should I do this? (Append :/usr/local/share/npm/bin to the exported $PATH at the bottom of my ~/.zshrc) usr/local/share/npm/bin/jslint -> /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/jslintĭue to /usr/local/share/npm/bin not being in my $PATH.ġ) Why did brew not install global npm bin path to path? Maybe it did, but something zsh does is messing it up. Now that I want to run jslint.js on the command-line as the command jslint I find that the canonical way to accomplish this is sudo npm install -g jslint which ran successfully with this output: $ sudo npm install -g jslint You might encounter this issue while working on Angular or Node projects from behind a proxy server. In this quick tutorial, you learnt how to install the required npm dependencies from behind a proxy server. I am on a Mac and have installed node.js through brew install node. Once you have set the above configurations, you should be able to install the npm dependencies from behind a proxy server. I am being more cautious than usual because I have been confused by the behavior of npm in the past.