Getting Started

Install Volta

Unix Installation

On most Unix systems including macOS, you can install Volta with a single command:

curl https://get.volta.sh | bash

For bash, zsh, and fish, this installer will automatically update your console startup script. If you wish to prevent modifications to your console startup script, see Skipping Volta Setup. To manually configure your shell to use Volta, edit your console startup scripts to:

• Set the VOLTA_HOME variable to $HOME/.volta
• Add $VOLTA_HOME/bin to the beginning of your PATH variable

Windows Installation

For Windows, the recommended method of installing Volta is using winget:

winget install Volta.Volta

If you prefer, you can [download the installer directly](https://github.com/volta-cli/volta/releases/v{{ site.data.latest-version }}) and run it manually to install Volta.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

If you are using Volta within the Windows Subsystem for Linux, follow the Unix installation guide above.

Select a default Node version

This is the version that Volta will use everywhere outside of projects that have a pinned version.

To select a specific version of Node, run:

volta install node@{{ site.data.versions.node.stable.full }}

Or to use the latest LTS version, run:

volta install node