How to install Node.js on MacOS and OS X

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.

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

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