Installing multiple npm versions

Question

Is it possible to install multiple versions of npm for different projects that I am working on or are the npm installations always global? (Windows 10)

Answer 1

You can install multiple versions of npm by installing multiple versions of node. To do this, you can use nvm-windows. Each different installation of node installs a different version of npm

To use a different version of node and nvm in a project, you simple need to switch:

nvm use 5.0

You can also create a .nvmrc file containing the version number in the project root directory. nvm will use the specified version of node for that project.