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I wanted to start practicing ES6, and plan to do that using Node.js (--harmony) in the first instance. I have the stable 0.10 branch on my Ubuntu computer already and want to run the unstable version just for testing new coding styles.

Is there a way of running a node 0.11 instance locally to a project (i.e. from node-modules?), or some other best practice?

Or, as this is a development machine anyway, perhaps I could just replace stable Node with unstable anyway as it is now 'stable enough'?

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  1. Install some node version manager: n or nvm. For example, let's install n:

    $ sudo npm install -g n

  2. Install node version you want to use for your project. For expamle, 0.11.14:

    $ sudo n 0.11.14

  3. Add scripts start command to your package.json:

    {
    "name": "some-project",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "scripts": {
        "start": "n use 0.11.14 ."
    }
}

  4. Run your project from project folder:

    npm start

  5. Enjoy:)

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