node

Install command: 
brew install node

Also known as: node.js, node@25, nodejs, npm

Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment

https://nodejs.org/

License: MIT

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/node.json

Formula code: node.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 25.2.1
head ⚡️ HEAD

Other versions:

node@24 24.12.0 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
node@22 22.21.1 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
node@20 20.19.6 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
node@18 18.20.8 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment

Depends on:

brotli 1.2.0 Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google
c-ares 1.34.6 Asynchronous DNS library
icu4c@78 78.1 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
libnghttp2 1.68.0 HTTP/2 C Library
libnghttp3 1.13.1 HTTP/3 library written in C
libngtcp2 1.18.0 IETF QUIC protocol implementation
libuv 1.51.0 Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
openssl@3 3.6.0 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
simdjson 4.2.3 SIMD-accelerated C++ JSON parser
sqlite 3.51.1 Command-line interface for SQLite
uvwasi 0.0.23 WASI syscall API built atop libuv
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.14 3.14.2 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

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