node@20 (deprecated)

Disable date: 2026-10-28

Install command: 
brew install node@20

Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment

https://nodejs.org/

License: MIT

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/node@20.json

Formula code: node@20.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 ✅ 20.20.2

Other versions:

node@24 24.18.0 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
node@22 22.23.1 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
node@18 18.20.8 Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment

Keg-only

Depends on:

brotli 1.2.0 Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google
c-ares 1.34.8 Asynchronous DNS library
icu4c@78 78.3 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
libnghttp2 1.69.0 HTTP/2 C Library
libuv 1.52.1 Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
openssl@3 3.6.3 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.4 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python@3.13 3.13.14 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
node@20 9,030
node@20 --HEAD 6
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node@20 67
Installs (90 days)
node@20 28,385
node@20 --HEAD 29
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node@20 27,039
node@20 --HEAD 29
Installs (365 days)
node@20 133,513
node@20 --HEAD 181
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node@20 124,191
node@20 --HEAD 181