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How to know how I installed Node on macOS?

I know that I have Node installed but I don't remember if I used NVM, Brew or if I downloaded it from the official Node website. Is there any command I can use to figure out how I installed it in the first place?

Note: I use a zsh shell on macOS

Solution

  • A good indicator is to check where it is installed:

    ls -l $(which node)

    For brew, this will yield something like

    lrwxr-xr-x  1 flyx  admin  30 Sep 12 17:02 /usr/local/bin/node -> ../Cellar/node/16.9.1/bin/node

    NVM seems to install it somewhere in ~/.nvm but I don't know the specifics. I have no idea what the installer does.