Hey, there, this is Andre from the future.
That's right.
You just watched a video of me installing node, but oh, now we're in the future and the no versions
are now higher based on when you watch the video, this might be even higher where the light's release
is.
Probably.
Well, probably this version.
So what can you do here?
Well, it doesn't really matter, right?
I said in the previous video that as long as you have a version higher than this, everything in this
course will work.
But let's say you coming back to this video or just in general, you want to keep your software up to
date and you decide that I want to get the latest version of Node because this latest version of Node
has the best, most up to date features.
Let's say we go back to our terminal and in here I check my node version.
I see that have version nine point six now and this version 9.6.
Well, it's definitely lower than what the latest is.
Once again, if I do and PM version, here I get five point six, which if we look at the homepage and
maybe the downloads here, you see that it includes AMPM version six point nine.
So if I go to the homepage here, it will actually automatically detect one machine you're on or you
can go specifically to downloads and download specific to your operating system.
Now, let's go through a process where we update our node version.
All we need to do is click on this.
Open up the package.
Go through the installer.
Let's continue.
Yes, we agree to the license.
And let's close.
OK, so let's go back to the terminal here and tried Node Dash, the.
Well, all I have to do is close my terminal and open up a new window, so in my case, I can just open
up a new window.
Let's make this a little bit bigger.
If I now do note Dash V, check that out, I have the latest version of note, if once again I do 22:00
Dash V.
I have the latest version of npm as well.
Very, very cool.
Now, based on your machine, you might encounter some issues.
So I will leave some resources for you to actually help you along.
For example, if you're just installing the latest version of npm, there's a way to do it, as I've
shown you before with OSX and Linux.
And then for Windows, there is a separate way of updating things again, if it's just the npm you want
to upgrade and they actually have a couple of nice links of how to do it step by step.
But I'm only showing you this because in the future in your project, you might want to upgrade some
of your tooling.
If you're watching this video right now and this is your first time downloading node, then most likely
you have the latest version anyway, so you don't have to do anything like you.