Installing nodejs via Windows Package Manager 1.0

[joehonton]

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Installing nodejs on Windows is not up to par with installing it on Linux and MacOS.

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Microsoft's new Windows Package Manager is finally here. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-1-0/

Hopefully this is on somebody's radar.

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NVM has always been an extra step and always felt unnecessary, especially when we want exactly one version of nodejs on an OS.

[Trott]

@nodejs/build @nodejs/platform-windows

[richardlau]

Looks like someone (Microsoft?) has already created Node.js winget packages: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/o/OpenJS

Also refs #34014 / nodejs/admin#535
Cc @bzoz

[ST-DDT]

The latest LTS versions seem to be missing though (e.g. 16.13.0, 16.13.1).

EDIT only for the OpenJS.NodeJS variant. The .LTS version contains them.

[koutsenko]

So, why we still must install chocolatey during NodeJS install? I think there must be a choice

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[Fydon]

I agree it would be preferable to install nodejs via winget and have it install its dependencies via this as well, i.e. Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools and Python.Python.3.10.

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