How to determine latest stable version of node from nvm?

Question

I ran nvm ls-remote and the end of the list looked like this:

       v14.17.6   (LTS: Fermium)
       v14.18.0   (LTS: Fermium)
       v14.18.1   (LTS: Fermium)
       v14.18.2   (LTS: Fermium)
       v14.18.3   (LTS: Fermium)
       v14.19.0   (LTS: Fermium)
       v14.19.1   (Latest LTS: Fermium)
        v15.0.0
        v15.0.1
        v15.1.0
        ...
       v16.11.1
       v16.12.0
       v16.13.0   (LTS: Gallium)
       v16.13.1   (LTS: Gallium)
       v16.13.2   (LTS: Gallium)
       v16.14.0   (LTS: Gallium)
       v16.14.1   (LTS: Gallium)
       v16.14.2   (Latest LTS: Gallium)
        v17.0.0
        v17.0.1
        v17.1.0
        ...
        v17.8.0
        v17.9.0

My goal is to get the most recent version that's stable (ie. recommended). How do I determine that from this list?

Answer 1

Show current installed version

nvm current shows you the current version you have installed.

C:\>nvm current
v18.13.0

Show all available versions

nvm list available shows you a partial list of all available versions there are.

C:\>nvm list available

|   CURRENT    |     LTS      |  OLD STABLE  | OLD UNSTABLE |
|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
|    19.5.0    |   18.13.0    |   0.12.18    |   0.11.16    |
|    19.4.0    |   18.12.1    |   0.12.17    |   0.11.15    |
|    19.3.0    |   18.12.0    |   0.12.16    |   0.11.14    |
|    19.2.0    |   16.19.0    |   0.12.15    |   0.11.13    |
|    19.1.0    |   16.18.1    |   0.12.14    |   0.11.12    |
|    19.0.1    |   16.18.0    |   0.12.13    |   0.11.11    |
|    19.0.0    |   16.17.1    |   0.12.12    |   0.11.10    |
|   18.11.0    |   16.17.0    |   0.12.11    |    0.11.9    |
|   18.10.0    |   16.16.0    |   0.12.10    |    0.11.8    |
|    18.9.1    |   16.15.1    |    0.12.9    |    0.11.7    |
|    18.9.0    |   16.15.0    |    0.12.8    |    0.11.6    |
|    18.8.0    |   16.14.2    |    0.12.7    |    0.11.5    |
|    18.7.0    |   16.14.1    |    0.12.6    |    0.11.4    |
|    18.6.0    |   16.14.0    |    0.12.5    |    0.11.3    |
|    18.5.0    |   16.13.2    |    0.12.4    |    0.11.2    |
|    18.4.0    |   16.13.1    |    0.12.3    |    0.11.1    |
|    18.3.0    |   16.13.0    |    0.12.2    |    0.11.0    |
|    18.2.0    |   14.21.2    |    0.12.1    |    0.9.12    |
|    18.1.0    |   14.21.1    |    0.12.0    |    0.9.11    |
|    18.0.0    |   14.21.0    |   0.10.48    |    0.9.10    |

This is a partial list. For a complete list, visit https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases

Stable vs. experimental versions

Versions with even numbers such as 18.x are stable.

Versions with odd numbers such as 19.x are unstable/experimental.

See https://nodejs.org/en/

Install latest LTS version

LTS (Long Term Support) is the stable version.

Depending on platform, either nvm install lts on Windows or nvm install --lts on Linux installs the latest LTS version.

Select installed version

If you had, say, 17.x installed, you now also have, say, 18.x installed.

Now, you need to select the newly installed version with nvm use 18.13.0.