Installing multiple npm versions

Question

Is it possible to install multiple versions of npm for different projects that I am working on or are the npm installations always global? (Windows 10)

Are also tried installing different versions with https://github.com/marcelklehr/nodist but it seems to affect only the node version, not the npm version.

Or does npm version actually matter? Can I just use the newest npm version even when a project says the requirement is a certain npm version?

Answer 1

You can install multiple versions of npm by installing multiple versions of node . To do this, you can use nvm-windows . Each different installation of node installs a different version of npm

To use a different version of node and nvm in a project, you simple need to switch:

nvm use 5.0

You can also create a .nvmrc file containing the version number in the project root directory. nvm will use the specified version of node for that project.

Answer 2

You also can install npm using npm

Example of installing specific version:

npm i -g npm@3.5.4

Answer 3

if you are using eclipse IDE for Node projects, you can easily change Node version using Webclipse plugin.

Answer 4

If you need to use a different version of npm for each project, there are a number of possible solutions. Probably the lightest-weight version is to use npx . A semi-common use-case for this can be projects that use lock-file v1 and another that uses lock-file v2. v2 was introduced in npm v7.

So in your project using lockfile v1, if you need to install a new package.

npx npm@v6 install dalle-node

For lockfile v2, or to just use the latest and great.

npx npm@latest install dalle-node

Or does npm version actually matter?

In most cases, it's not likely to matter much. The above example is one I run in to in my own projects. If you use a project and some of the npm commands are giving you trouble, eg npm run , try using the version of npm the project recommends before filing a bug with the maintainer.