Cannot install latest nodejs using conda on Mac

I had a similar problem and this is how I fixed it:

First I did not only conda install -c conda-forge nodejs, but all the commands that are listed in the https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/nodejs.

conda install -c conda-forge nodejs
conda install -c conda-forge/label/gcc7 nodejs
conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf201901 nodejs
conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf202003 nodejs

With this I got 13.10.1 version of nodejs. And after I did conda update nodejs and received 14.8.0 version of it.

Currently, the latest version nodejs 14.x requires icu>=65 which is not yet globally available across conda-forge packages. Therefore it can be installed into a new environment with conda create -n new_env_name -c conda-forge nodejs, but most likely will raise package conflicts in existing environments.

conda install node-js -c conda-forge installing the very old version 6.13.1 seems to be a solver problem. conda install nodejs -c conda-forge --repodata-fn=repodata.json will install a more current version: nodejs-13.x.

Alternative workaround is to use mamba as a conda replacement.

Credits go to Wolf Vollprecht.

Here's my workaround:

I installed nodejs for Mac from the .pkg file from the offical site and then every time I update packages in my conda environments, I force remove the nodejs version conda installs with:

conda uninstall --force nodejs

and then go about using the environment as if it had nodejs installed. That way when any other package needs nodejs, it gets the latest one from the system directory /usr/local/.