NS 8.9.3 not upgrading to 9.0.1 on MacOS

[mrwrighty]

Issue Description

As with all previous updates to Nativescript I have used npm install -g nativescript and the upgrade has worked. In this instance, its not. The Upgrade appears to run, message after running the above is "added 1 package and changed 583 packages", but then ns -v returns 8.9.3 again.

which ns returns /opt/homebrew/bin/ns. Not sure whats going wrong.

npm -v 11.6.1
node -v 24.10.0

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[jcassidyav]

Do npm list -g.

This will produce something like

/Users/theuser/.nvm/versions/node/v24.11.1/lib
├── corepack@0.34.2
├── nativescript@9.0.0
├── npm@11.6.0
└── yarn@1.22.22

If nativescript@9.0.0 is there then it did install.

Then the issue is that /opt/homebrew/bin/ns appears in your path before the bin directory of your current node.

[mrwrighty]

Hi thanks for the response.

npm list -g returns

/Users/me/.nvm/versions/node/v24.10.0/lib
├── corepack@0.34.0
├── nativescript@9.0.1
└── npm@11.6.1

My .zshrc file has this for homebrew

/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin in that order, what path should I be using. Only ever followed the Nativescript installation instructions.

Edit: a quick search at OS level returned ./.nvm/versions/node/v24.10.0/lib/node_modules/nativescript/bin/ns which is the newly installed version, so why is it ignoring the homebrew path which I've always used.

Followed the advice here https://blog.nativescript.org/nativescript-9-announcement/#tl%3Bdr-—-updating-to-nativescript-9.0

[jcassidyav]

Your current node was installed via nvm.
When you install nvm it tries to put a script in the start up scripts to set the paths correctly.

i.e. as described here: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm?tab=readme-ov-file#install--update-script ( for whatever version of nvm you are using).

These scripts are missing, or the homebrew path is before the nvm paths in $PATH. I am guessing that you have a version of node installed through homebrew and one installed through nvm. So either change the path order, or uninstall the node installed through homebrew.

[mrwrighty]

My .zshrc file contains the following nvm entries, homebrew/opt/nvm

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm" [ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm [ -s "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && \. "/opt/homebrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" # This loads nvm bash_completion export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python@3.9/libexec/bin:$PATH" export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH" export VCPKG_ROOT=$HOME/vcpkg export PATH="$PATH:/Users/nick/dev/tooling/flutter/bin" export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH" export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/lib" export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/include" export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin" export PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby@3.3/bin:/opt/homebrew/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/bin:$PATH

[jcassidyav]

Ah nvm is installed through HomeBrew, I am not sure how that is supposed to work, you may have better luck with installing nvm their recommended way ( they say on their readme they do not support home-brew)

At the end of the day the issue is that /opt/homebrew/bin/ns does not link to ./.nvm/versions/node/v24.10.0/lib/node_modules/nativescript/bin/ns so you could always just change that.

Personally I'd uninstall nvm from hombrew and install it using their recommended method. I've used it this way for years.

[mrwrighty]

OK, I've left as is at the moment, strange how Nativescript still refers to using Homebrew for installing nvm. At the moment I have just updated the symbolic link in /opt/homebrew/bin to the new nvm install path, upgraded a project, rebuilt and so far so good.

Thanks for the heads up.