Use older version of Node.js on MacOS with homebrew

Homebrew (or brew) for MacOS is great, but one thing I dislike is how it can upgrade to a major release of say Node.js or Perl. This usually comes with a lot of incompatibility issues because not all modules you’ve got installed work yet or require reinstalling.

To switch to an older version you can use brew link.

$ brew link --overwrite node@18
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