node
Install command:
brew install nodeAlso known as: node.js, node@26, nodejs, npm
Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
License: MIT
Development: Pull requests
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 | ✅ | 26.7.0 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Other versions:
| node@24 | 24.19.0 | Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment |
| node@22 | 22.23.2 | Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment |
| node@20 | 20.20.2 | Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment |
| node@18 | 18.20.8 | Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment |
Depends on:
| ada-url | 4.0.0 | WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser written in modern C++ |
| brotli | 1.2.0 | Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google |
| c-ares | 1.34.8 | Asynchronous DNS library |
| hdrhistogram_c | 0.11.10 | C port of the HdrHistogram |
| icu4c@78 | 78.3 | C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization |
| libffi | 3.7.1 | Portable Foreign Function Interface library |
| libnghttp2 | 1.70.0 | HTTP/2 C Library |
| libnghttp3 | 1.18.0 | HTTP/3 library written in C |
| libngtcp2 | 1.25.0 | IETF QUIC protocol implementation |
| libuv | 1.52.1 | Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O |
| llhttp | 9.4.3 | Port of http_parser to llparse |
| merve | 1.2.2 | C++ lexer for extracting named exports from CommonJS modules |
| nbytes | 0.1.4 | Library of byte handling functions extracted from Node.js core |
| openssl@3 | 3.6.3 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| simdjson | 4.6.6 | SIMD-accelerated C++ JSON parser |
| sqlite | 3.53.4 | 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 | 3.0.5 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
| python@3.14 | 3.14.6 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
| Single Executable Application is disabled as it doesn't work with shared libnode. Temporal support is disabled as it doesn't work with shared ICU library. |
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 302,742 | 820,553 | 3,179,296 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 407 | 1,191 | 5,378 |
| Installs on Request | 246,149 | 663,222 | 2,556,261 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 407 | 1,191 | 5,375 |
| Build Errors | 374 | ||
Build Errors (--HEAD) | 1 |