1. Download the Node. Js

Node. Js download pageChoose to download

2. Unzip

To decompress the package to your own path, select drive D. Create two folders

  • Node-global: indicates the global installation position of NPM
  • Node-cache: indicates the NPM cache path

3. Configure environment variables

CMD, which maps the NPM command to node.exe npm-cli.js. So you can execute NPM install in any directory by simply adding the path of Node.exe to the environment variable.

4. Verify

Execute them separately on the command line

node -v

npm -v

If the following version number appears, the installation is complete.



Configure node-global: NPM global installation location and node-cache: NPM cache path. Run the following command:

NPM config set prefix "D:\node-v14.16.0-win-x64\node-global"

NPM config set cache" D:\node-v14.16.0-win-x64\node-cache"

To update the NPM to the latest version, execute the following command:

npm install -g npm

5. Test

The installationWebpack (a static module packaging tool for modern JavaScript applications)To test, execute the following command:

npm install webpack -g

You can see the webpack folder in node_modules under Node-global