Complete amateur here, just starting out with node today. I am on W11 and have used WSL before for some computational stuff. However, I had not thought to use WSL for installing node until reading some posts on here. Currently working with nvm-windows (version 1.2.2) as a result.

Mods, if this is not the right place to post this, I apologize. Just wanted to write here in case someone has an issue similar to what I had when trying to run nvm-windows.

Most of you probably would have seen this instantly, and in hindsight, I should have caught this sooner...

But when choosing a custom path for installing NVM HOME, etc. don't forget to add the backslash () at the end of your file path. I was unable to run the "nvm" command in powershell because of this mistake. Lol. For some reason, when I checked the file path, it didn't have the final backslash by default.

Hello gang, I am having issues using Node version manager on windows. I have checked my environmental variables, manually added paths via my bash file, and i used the powershell, command prompt, and git bash. NVM commands work fine but node -v and npm -v will not work at all. Incredibly frustrating as i was in the middle of working on AWS services so this is incredibly counter productive. Any advice?

I should add that i was using the latest version of node up until today without any issues. An application or project i was working on necessitated an older version of Node.js. The Windows support article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/javascript/nodejs-on-windows explains in few details additional processes i could take to resolve the issue so i have been relying on information found on the web. I can send photos of my environmental variables although i am very cautious uploading any information regarding my local machine via a subreddit about programmers learning. Unfortunately not all humans live for the betterment of the human race. If anyone has dealt with this problem. let me know a resource i can delve into or how you resolved the issue.

I only recently started using nodejs. I installed it with an installer which i probably shouldn’t do and use version manager instead. Idk yet if i will work on different versions until the point i will do fresh windows install (in 2 months). If i don’t really need to switch node versions (idk yet) can i stay with my current installation? Which version manager should i use (nvm-windows seems to be recommended)? Is just running uninstaller enough to clean thing up enough for version manager or should i do manual cleanup or 3rdparty uninstaller(like revo), and if needed what folders should i delete. Also should i use LTS or latest in most cases(assuming i don’t really need newer features).

OS: windows 10 and i will move to windows 11 in few months