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Node.js for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    Node.js 24.7.0 LATEST

  • Review by

    Daniel Leblanc

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.12 Sierra or later

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  • Author / Product

    Node.js Foundation / External Link

  • Filename

    node-v24.7.0.pkg

  • MD5 Checksum

    59481ce77acd4d5f494dbf164676f602

As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node for Mac is designed to build scalable network applications. In the following "hello world" example, many connections can be handled concurrently. Upon each connection, the callback is fired, but if there is no work to be done, Node for macOS will sleep.

This is in contrast to today's more common concurrency model where OS threads are employed. Thread-based networking is relatively inefficient and very difficult to use. Furthermore, users of Nodejs are free from worries of dead-locking the process, since there are no locks.

Almost no function in the app directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Because nothing blocks, scalable systems are very reasonable to develop in Node.

Node.js is similar in design to and influenced by, systems like Ruby's Event Machine or Python's Twisted. It takes the event model a bit further. It presents an event loop as a runtime construct instead of a library.

In other systems, there is always a blocking call to start the event-loop. Typically behavior is defined through callbacks at the beginning of a script and at the end starts a server through a blocking call like EventMachine::run(). In Node js, there is no such start-the-event-loop call. It simply enters the event loop after executing the input script.

The tool exits the event loop when there are no more callbacks to perform. This behavior is like browser JavaScript — the event loop is hidden from the user.

HTTP is a first-class citizen in Nodejs, designed with streaming and low latency in mind. This makes Node js well suited for the foundation of a web library or framework.

Just because Nodejs is designed without threads, doesn't mean you cannot take advantage of multiple cores in your environment. Child processes can be spawned by using child_process.fork() API, and are designed to be easy to communicate with.

Built upon that same interface is the cluster module, which allows you to share sockets between processes to enable load balancing over your cores.

How to Use

Run the macOS installer package

Verify installation using Terminal

Use npm to manage packages

Run JavaScript files with node command

System Requirements
  • macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later
  • Intel or Apple Silicon (M1/M2) processor
  • At least 4 GB of RAM
  • 100 MB of available disk space
  • Internet connection for npm packages
PROS
  • Fast and lightweight runtime
  • Large open-source ecosystem
  • Built-in package manager (npm)
  • Easy to set up and use on Mac
  • Great for real-time applications
CONS
  • Single-threaded may limit scaling
  • Callback hell in complex logic
  • Frequent updates can break code
  • Lacks built-in GUI support
  • Not ideal for CPU-heavy tasks
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What's new in this version:

Notable Changes:
Post-Quantum Cryptography in node:crypto:
- OpenSSL 3.5 on 24.x kicked off post-quantum cryptography efforts in Node.js by
- allowing use of NIST's post-quantum cryptography standards for future-proofing
- applications against quantum computing threats. The following post-quantum
- algorithms are now available in node:crypto:
- ML-KEM (FIPS 203, Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard) through new crypto.encapsulate() and crypto.decapsulate() methods.
- ML-DSA (FIPS 204, Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard) in the existing crypto.sign() and crypto.verify() methods.

Modern Algorithms in Web Cryptography API:
- The second substantial extension to the Web Cryptography API
- (globalThis.crypto.subtle) was recently accepted for incubation by WICG
- The following algorithms and methods from this extension are now available in

the Node.js Web Cryptography API implementation:
- AES-OCB
- ChaCha20-Poly1305
- ML-DSA
- ML-KEM
- SHA-3
- SHAKE
- subtle.getPublicKey()
- SubtleCrypto.supports()
- ... with more coming in future releases
- Node.js execution argument support in single executable applications
- The single executable application configuration now supports additional fields
- to specify Node.js execution arguments and control how they can be extended when
- the application is run
- execArgv takes an array of strings for the execution arguments to be used

execArgvExtension takes one of the following values:
- "none": No additional execution arguments are allowed
- "cli": Additional execution arguments can be provided via a special command-line flag --node-options="--flag1 --flag2=value" at run time.
- "env" (default): Additional execution arguments can be provided via the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable at run time.
- Root certificates updated to NSS 3.114:
- Certificates added:
- TrustAsia TLS ECC Root CA
- TrustAsia TLS RSA Root CA
- SwissSign RSA TLS Root CA 2022 - 1

Certificates removed:
- GlobalSign Root CA
- Entrust.net Premium 2048 Secure Server CA
- Baltimore CyberTrust Root
- Comodo AAA Services root
- XRamp Global CA Root
- Go Daddy Class 2 CA
- Starfield Class 2 CA

Other Notable Changes:
- crypto: add argon2() and argon2Sync() methods
- http: add Agent.agentKeepAliveTimeoutBuffer option
- http2: add support for raw header arrays in h2Stream.respond()
- stream: add brotli support to CompressionStream and DecompressionStream

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