Updating node.js with NVM for Windows

Question

I've been using NVM for Windows to run two versions of Node on my system, the latest version and the LTS version. However, I haven't updated Node since installing NVM. I would like to update both versions to their current iterations (11.5.0 and 10.14.2 at the time of writing), ideally without having to reinstall all of my global packages for each. I know the original NVM has this capability with the --reinstall-packages-from flag, but it doesn't look like there's anything similar in NVM for Windows.

Answer 1

You're right, there's nothing similar in NVM for Windows. If it would be useful for you, you could always request it by opening an issue on the github page.

It sounds like you already know how to install 11.5.0 and 10.14.2, and that once you do, running nvm use 11 or nvm use 10 will automatically select the latest appropriate version (but you'll still have to manually reinstall any global packages).

This might be an opportunity to take stock of global packages, they often cause more trouble than they are worth. (In general, the fewer global packages installed the better.)