Install Node from NodeSource

NodeSource is a company focused on providing enterprise-grade Node support and they maintain a repository containing the latest versions of Node.js.

Use this repository if you need to install a specific version of Node.js. At the time of writing, NodeSource repository provides the following versions – v13.x, v12.x, v11.x, v10.x, and v8.x.

Install NodeSource Repository

Just like nvm, we’ll get nodesource repository using curl likeso,

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -

The command will add the NodeSource signing key to your system, create an apt sources repository file, install all necessary packages and refresh the apt cache.

Install NodeJS

Once nodeSource installation is done, we can simply install NodeJS

sudo apt install nodejs

This will install both node and npm binaries.

Verify the install

Now we can simply verify if node installed perfectly on our systems.

node -v
npm -v

You can also learn how to install node with nvm.