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Languages and frameworks: Node.js

Last modified: 09 June 2023

Required plugins:

JavaScript and Typescript, Node.js (only for developing Node.js applications) -  The plugins are bundled with JetBrains Rider and enabled by default.

Node.js is a lightweight runtime environment for executing JavaScript outside the browser, for example on the server or in the command line. JetBrains Rider integrates with Node.js providing assistance in configuring, editing, running, debugging, testing, profiling, and maintaining your applications.

If you need Node.js only as a local runtime for your application or for managing npm packages, running JavaScript linters, build tools, test frameworks, and so on, just install Node.js. If you follow the standard installation procedure, in most cases JetBrains Rider detects Node.js itself.

If you want to switch among several Node.js installations, they must be configured as local Node.js interpreters. In most cases, JetBrains Rider detects Node.js installations, configures them as interpreters automatically, and adds them to the list where you can select the relevant one.

To run a Node.js application remotely, configure it as a remote interpreter. See Node.js with Docker, Node.js via SSH, and Node.js with Vagrant for details.

Before you start

Switching between Node.js versions

With JetBrains Rider, you can have several installations of Node.js and switch between them while working on the same project.

Using a system Node.js version

With JetBrains Rider, you can set the default system node alias as your project’s Node.js version. After that this version will be automatically used by all the tools that require Node.js and in all new run/debug configurations. In particular, this means that you will not have to update the settings for each tool if you install a new Node.js version and make it the default node alias in your system.

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This functionality is especially helpful when you are using nvm.

Configuring a local Node.js interpreter

You may need to configure Node.js installation as an interpreter manually, for example, if Node.js is installed in a non-default location so JetBrains Rider does not detect it automatically.

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