node@18 (deprecated)

Disable date: 2025-10-29

Install command: 
brew install node@18

Platform built on V8 to build network applications

https://nodejs.org/

License: MIT

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/node@18.json

Formula code: node@18.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

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

Current versions:

stable ✅ 18.20.8

Other versions:

node@22 22.21.0 Platform built on V8 to build network applications
node@20 20.19.5 Platform built on V8 to build network applications
node@16 16.20.2 Platform built on V8 to build network applications

Keg-only

Depends on:

brotli 1.1.0 Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google
c-ares 1.34.5 Asynchronous DNS library
icu4c@77 77.1 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
libnghttp2 1.68.0 HTTP/2 C Library
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

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 2.5.1 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python-setuptools 80.9.0 Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
python@3.13 3.13.9 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

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