How to install Node.js on MacOS and OS X

Tyler Tyler (291)
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There are plenty of reasons to install node. I first installed it because it was required for Ruby on Rails, but recently I've started making better use of it.

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Install homebrew

You can install homebrew here: Homebrew. Homebrew seems the be the best package manager for OSX. If for some reason you can't use Homebrew skip to step 3, but it's worth installing because you'll get a lot of use out of it in the future.

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Use homebrew to install node

Now that homebrew is installed, installing node is simple:

brew install node

Once this finishes, you can check the version to make sure it installed properly:

node --version
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Build by hand (caveman style)

If you don't have homebrew or don't want to install it, you can still install node.

First, install Xcode.

Second, install git.

Then run the following:

git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git
cd node
./configure
make
sudo make install