To install the ARM version of Homebrew on the Apple Silicon Mac, I used the manual 'untar anywhere' method: Install Apple Silicon version of the Homebrew Verify by opening a new terminal session and running arch. This cannot be done with brew remove since Homebrew won’t have enough permissions but you can remove zsh manually: // 1. To solve this issue I had to remove x86 compiled zsh that I installed via Homebrew. The new macOS Big Sur comes with zsh as a default shell so you don’t need to install it separately anymore. This was caused by the fact I already have been using zsh shell before and it was migrated over.

One of the biggest confusion for me was the fact my shell would not run in arm64 mode. I went with the latter and this post summarizes my experience. Since the existing Homebrew installation wouldn't allow my updating or installing packages anymore because of more restrictive OS permissions, I was faced with 'update the x86 homebrew' or “use an experimental cutting-edge ARM build”. That's it, folks! You now are able to use NodeJs 14 with your new Mac.Comparing Chrome via Rosetta 2 and native arm64 build.

Execute nvm use 14 to switch to NodeJs 14, if you have other NodeJs versions installed.

Execute arch and confirm that it is now returning i386.

Execute arch and confirm that at the moment it is returning arm64.

Now, to get to the real deal on installing NodeJs 14, we will execute everything through terminal. You can confirm that NVM has been successfully installed by executing nvm command in your terminal. It allows you to easily swap between Node versions through CLI.

Paste and execute /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -install-rosetta -agree-to-licenseįor any Node installation in Mac, I recommend you to use NVM.

Apple provides Rosetta, a translation app that allows applications that are built for Intel Chip (or previous generation Mac) to run under Apple Silicon. Unfortunately, there is no NodeJs 14 that is built for ARM64 Hence it has no support for the new Mac Silicon which is built around ARM64.įortunately, there is some workaround to get NodeJs 14 to work with Mac Silicon. However, I noticed that I am unable to compile NodeJs Version 14 which I have to use due to some of my projects are still on Angular 11 and 12.

I have recently received a new MacBook Pro with the Mac Silicon chip.

Nvm mac m1