How to check the current Node.js version at runtime
Run process.version
:
The version
property of the process
object returns a string with the current Node.js version.
In the browser the process
object is not defined, so you will get a ReferenceError:
Another way is to reference process.versions
(plural):
This returns an object that contains various properties referencing each component’s version.
To get the major version (in this example 12
) you can use
process.versions.node.split('.')[0]
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