Situation

URL: https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm
Title: Downloading and installing Node.js and npm
Source page: https://github.com/npm/documentation/blob/main/content/getting-started/configuring-your-local-environment/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm.mdx

The page separately links to

• https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

The https://nodejs.org/en/download/ has however been substantially changed and the old https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ page no longer exists.

Instead https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ redirects to https://nodejs.org/en/download/.

The version managers recommended on https://nodejs.org/en/download/ differ from the ones recommended by the npm docs.

Edit: Removed the table attempting to summarize https://nodejs.org/en/download/ as it appears to be too dynamic to keep up with.

Also the page refers to the outdated term "OS X". This was rebranded in 2016 to "macOS" with the Sierra release - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS.

Suggestions

1. npm should decide whether it wants to keep its own suggestions or align with Node.js suggestions for Node.js version managers
2. Separate links to the https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ should be removed / consolidated to use only the active https://nodejs.org/en/download/ page
3. Rename "OS X" references to "macOS" Edit: resolved in docs: rebrand OS X references to macOS cli#8371