Node Upgrade with Brew

One of the Homebridge plugins was whining about “node” being out of date. Sure enough, when running this with Terminal:

node –version

Showed my Mac mini was running “v16….” and it needed to be upgraded to 20. Easy enough with brew:

brew install node@20
brew unlink node@16
brew link node@20 –force –overwrite
nano ~/.zshrc

In nano I edited the following line from:

export PATH=”/usr/local/opt/node@16/bin:$PATH”

to

export PATH=”/usr/local/opt/node@20/bin:$PATH”

Exit and save with:

Control (key) and X
Yes

Next I closed the Terminal window, opened a new Terminal window, and typed in:

node -v

Which now proudly says:

v20.9.0

Yes!

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