Now, you system is ready for the installation. Update the Homebrew package list and install NVM.

brew update
brew install nvm

Next, create a directory for NVM in home.

mkdir ~/.nvm

Now, configure the required environment variables. Edit the following configuration file in your home directory

vim ~/.bash_profile

and, add below lines to ~/.bash_profile ( or ~/.zshrc for macOS Catalina or later)

export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh

Press ESC + :wq to save and close your file.

Next, load the variable to the current shell environment. From the next login, it will automatically loaded.

source ~/.bash_profile

That’s it. The NVM has been installed on your macOS system. Go to next step to install Node.js versions with the help of nvm.

First of all, see what Node versions are available to install. To see available versions, type:

nvm ls-remote

Install node for M1 arch:

nvm uninstall 14
arch -x86_64 zsh 
nvm install 14
nvm alias default 14