Upgrade NodeJS to LTS 8 on Mac OS with brew

Question

Since node 8 LTS has been released I am intending to upgrade my current version v6.11.4 to version v8.9.0 on macOS Sierra.

Tried brew upgrade node and looked it worked, but when doing node -v still getting v6.11.4.

If I try brew upgrade node again am getting Error: node 8.9.0 already installed as below.

Note 1: I am not using nvm.

Note 2: I had found the following question on stackoverflow, but none proposal there worked for me, maybe because it's five years old.

Thanks in advance,

It worked, thanks! I ended up doing `brew link --overwrite node` — locropulenton, Nov 01 '17 at 15:16

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '17 at 15:24

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Looks like it is a symlink issue.

brew link --overwrite node fixes it.

Console outputs Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/8.9.0... 144 symlinks created

answered Nov 01 '17 at 15:24

locropulenton

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