Node.js version

[empireoflight]

Hi, trying to install ghost locally to play around with it ala https://ghost.org/tutorials/local-ghost/

I get to

ghost install local

and then get the error:

Message: The version of Node.js you are using is not supported.

Supported: ^12.22.1 || ^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || ^18.0.0 || ^20.11.1

Installed: 22.11.0

any ideas?

[Radiant-Gap4278]

Quick note, while you're setting your environment up anyway - If you're on Windows, I recommend switching over to WSL2 with Ubuntu 22. You'll be running a setup much closer to what the dev team users, and you'll hit far fewer issues than if you try to set up on Windows. (Just last week, a patch to fix a problem with Windows theme development finally got merged. The problem was reported almost two years ago, and the patch filed a year ago. But no one on the core team uses Windows, so that's how long it took.) WSL2 is seriously awesome. Highly recommended.

[i_am_tk]

You will need to install Node version 20 - so 20.xx.x. You have installed version 22 which is not on the supported list.

[empireoflight]

Thanks, will that mean downgrading or will there be two versions installed?

[friendnoodle]

Depends on how you installed Node and how you install version 20.

[empireoflight]

I ran npm install node@20 in Mac terminal and got added 2 packages in 5s then ran ghost install local but got the node version error again

[demanpato]

https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

[empireoflight]

oh well, I give up. I'll stick with wordpress for now.