Upgrade the version of nodejs to 5.12.0

Question

I tried to install node.js by NVM in Ubuntu 16.04 server by following this link. And I got:

root@instance-15s8fbzx:/opt# nodejs --version
v4.2.6
root@instance-15s8fbzx:/opt# npm --version
5.3.0
root@instance-15s8fbzx:/opt# node --version
v8.4.0

Then, we I run a mean-stack project by sudo npm start, I got

class User {
^^^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode

Then, I saw this link, I think maybe because the nodejs version is not correct. I have another server with v5.12.0 as the version of nodejs, and the project worked well there.

Then, I tried to do

sudo npm install -g npm
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/n/versions/node/8.4.0/bin/node /usr/bin/node

But the version of the nodejs is still 4.2.6. Does anyone know how to upgrade its version to 5.12.0?

I think `nodejs` is the name used for the node binary in some Linux distributions. Both nvm and n install a binary named node. So you can ignore nodejs, or uninstall it using your distribution package manager. — shadowspawn, Feb 08 '22 at 01:09
For some info on the reason for the naming and how to use the Ubuntu package to get a binary called node: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18130164/nodejs-vs-node-on-ubuntu-12-04 — shadowspawn, Feb 08 '22 at 06:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '18 at 00:40

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After you have installed NVM and you have installed the necessary version of node, you select the node version as follows:

> nvm use v5.12.0

answered Jan 20 '18 at 00:40

Daniel Flippance

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I don't understand what's the difference between "nodejs --version" and "node --version"? – SoftTimur Jan 20 '18 at 00:45
The command-line tool for node is called "node", IE: "node --version" is using that command line tool, that's the one to use: https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html – Daniel Flippance Jan 20 '18 at 00:48
But I want to change the result of `nodejs --version` from `v4.2.6` to `v8.4.0`. – SoftTimur Jan 20 '18 at 00:49
I don't know what the tool: nodejs is. It is not the CLI for Node – Daniel Flippance Jan 20 '18 at 00:54
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On some platforms like CentOS they install it as nodejs to avoid a name conflict with another binary already called node – Joe Jan 20 '18 at 02:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '22 at 14:33

After upgrading to the Nodejs version, the following error occurred for the Laravel and VUE js packages I already had:

PHP Fatal error: During inheritance of IteratorAggregate: Uncaught ErrorException: Return type of Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag::getIterator() should either be compatible with IteratorAggregate::getIterator(): Traversable, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in C:\xampp\htdocs\clerk\vendor\symfony\http-foundation\ParameterBag.php:210

To solve the issue, I did the following:

composer update
npm update
npm run dev
php artisan serve

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Upgrade the version of nodejs to 5.12.0

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