Googling for “install nodejs raspi” I get millions of blog post telling me how to best install NodeJS on a RaspberryPi. Well and this is yet another.

The blog posts often explain how to get the newest version and results range from proposing version 6.x.x up to version 12.x.x as newest - some using a browser, some using the command line interface.

I think: Its all to complicated. Raspian already comes with a NodeJS version available via package manager. So, my humble advise to future me and to all those tinkerers big and small: Go tinker some more and use whichever NodeJS version is available via apt.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install nodejs -y
node -v
## v10.15.2