How to upgrade Node.js from v10.19.0 to v12.13.0 in Ubuntu 20?

Key words:

Ruby on Rails,node.js, webpack and stimulus,Ubuntu 20

problem to solve:

error tailwindcss@2.2.19: The engine “node” is incompatible with this module. Expected version “>=12.13.0”. Got “10.19.0”

how to fix?

if you run: sudo apt-get install -y nodejs, it doesn’t upgrade node.js from v10.19.0 to v12.13.0.

Follow following to upgrade node.js:

First remove nodejs using,

sudo apt-get purge –auto-remove nodejs

Then after, if curl is not installed then run the below command

sudo apt-get install curl

Then after run the below 2 commands,

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash –

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Credits goes to Dymtro Chasovskyi and Avinash Antala.

See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60679889/update-node-to-v12-on-ubuntu