You can install an old version of an npm package using the @ syntax:
npm install <package>@<version>
Example:
npm install cowsay
installs version 1.3.1 (at the time of writing).
Install version 1.2.0 with:
npm install cowsay@1.2.0
The same can be done with global packages:
npm install -g webpack@4.16.4
You might also be interested in listing all the previous version of a package. You can do it with npm view <package> versions:
❯ npm view cowsay versions
[ '1.0.0',
'1.0.1',
'1.0.2',
'1.0.3',
'1.1.0',
'1.1.1',
'1.1.2',
'1.1.3',
'1.1.4',
'1.1.5',
'1.1.6',
'1.1.7',
'1.1.8',
'1.1.9',
'1.2.0',
'1.2.1',
'1.3.0',
'1.3.1' ]
Top comments (1)
I found problem will downloading any specific npm package when I was using -g.
So I just removed that "-g" and it got worked.