How to downgrade or install older or specific version of node using Homebrew?

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I'm new to brew, to be honest. I want to use an earlier version of the Node. The current version I have is node@14.

The Version I've been trying to install is node@9.10.0, I tried installing it using Brew. brew install node@9.10.0

Online, I have followed instructions here

but it keeps throwing me an error, I'm not sure If I'm doing anything wrong here.

Warning: No available formula or cask with the name "node@9". Did you mean node, nodenv, node@12, node@10, node@14 or ode?
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
These similarly-named formulae were found:
node ✔       nodenv       node@12      node@10      node@14      ode
To install one of them, run (for example):
  brew install node ✔
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

I tried Updating brew and I have also tried brew doctor to resolve any kind of complications.

I have also tried uninstalling Node completely and installed it using Brew but any of the methods doesn't seem to work. Should I use a different subcommand instead? Is there a completely different method I should try?

I'm running macOS Bigsur 11.6 and Homebrew 3.2.16

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3 Answers

First do: brew search node and tell me what you get If you get the node version you want do:
brew install node@availableversion

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Try below:

  1. eval "$(nodenv init -)"
  2. node -v
  3. brew unlink (the node version you see)
  4. nodenv install -l
  5. nodenv install (the node version you want on the list)
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