William Leme

Software Engineer

Fixing 'npm does not support Node.js v xx.xx'

Posted at — Oct 22, 2021

Upon updating a node version you may see the following message stating your npm is not compatible with the newly installed nodejs version

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npm WARN npm npm does not support Node.js v14.18.1
npm WARN npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we
npm WARN npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version.
npm WARN npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
npm WARN npm You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/

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