Installing a custom version of Node on a shared hosting

NVM is the node version manager. It helps you manage your different versions of Node onto one single computer/server.

Installing NVM on the shared hosting

To install the latest version of NVM on Webfaction or any other shared hosting (using SSH):

wget -qO- https://cdn.rawgit.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash

Open a new terminal and hit nvm list. It should output the installed versions of node. Not much indeed.

nvm install stable

Would install the current stable version

nvm install 4

Would install the latest node 4.x.x

nvm install 0.12

Would install the latest 0.12.x version

nvm install 5.0.0

Would install precisely the node v 5.0.0

nvm list

To see what is available

nvm use defaut

nvm use 5.0.0

to switch respectively on the default version or the 5.0.0 version.

By vinyll on Nov. 22, 2015