Upgrading Node on an Azure website?

Question

I\'m trying to run some pre deployment tasks (unit tests etc) with NPM on an Azure website, however the version of node on the VM is v0.10.32, the current version of node is

Answer 1

2017 update. All above didn't work for me in.

I changed:

// package.json
engines":{"node": "8.0.0"}

and then I added app settings value

I restarted an app million times, and the solution was to change iisnode.yml

nodeProcessCommandLine: "D:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\8.0.0\node.exe"

That's it. I hope it will help someone.

Update

Just to clarify things: I'm talking about App Service

And if you ftp to your App you will see iisnode.yml here: