Downgrade NodeJS with Brew on Mac OS

06 Apr 2022

I recently had to downgrade my nodejs installation to v16.00 because version 18.x introduced some breaking changes to dependencies. Here is how this was done with brew:

• Current Node version:

node --version

• Search for the desired NodeJS version:

brew search node@16

• Unlink the current node version

brew unlink node

• Install the new version of Node:

brew install node@16

• Link the node version. Test with the --dry-run flag to get a list of all files which will be deleted:

brew link --overwrite --dry-run node@16
brew link --overwrite node@16