This DigitalOcean Install NVM guide by the experts at Bobcares will make installing and running Node.js a piece of cake. 

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All About DigitalOcean Install NVM

NVM or Node Version Manager is a tool that allows us to install multiple node.js versions on one system. Furthermore, we can also select specific Node versions for different applications. According to our Support Team, NVM comes with an option to automatically select the node version via the .nvmrc configuration file.

Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source, back-end JS runtime environment that executes JS code outside a browser. In other words, it allows developers to produce dynamic web page content before sending it to the user’s web browser. Unfortunately, getting node.js up and running is not exactly an easy task. This is where NVM comes into play.

How to install NVM

In order to install NVM, we have to download the script from this link. Alternatively, we can run one of the following commands to download then run the script automatically:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash

Or,

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash

After running the script, the nvm repository clones to ~/.nvm. After that it will try to add the source lines from the code snippet seen below to the correct profile file (~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.bashrc):

export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

Once installation is done, we have to source the .bashrc file with the following command:

source ~/.bashrc

Alternatively, we can use the following command if we are using the interactive terminal to test the installation:

source ~/.bash_profile

If we want to find out which versions of Node.js are available, we have to run the command:

nvm list-remote

This command will result in a list from which we can select which Node.js version we want to install.

Moreover, we can also access the list of different Node.js versions already installed with this command:

nvm list

At the end of the day, installing NVM makes it easier to get Node.js up and running.

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Conclusion

To sum up, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to install NVM DigitalOcean.