Update npm version shipped with Node 12

[burashka]

Node 12 shipped with npm 6.14.4, but this npm version have bug. Users ask update npm version shipped with Node 12.

What is the expected behavior?

npm version 6.14.5 shipped with Node 12

What do you see instead?

npm version 6.14.4 shipped with Node 12

[targos]

npm is regularly updated on Node.js 12. The next release will probably have it.
In the meantime, you can update manually with npm install -g npm.

[bohni]

How to update npm (node-12.18.0) on windows?

$ npm install -g npm
npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! path C:\<pathToNode>\npm.cmd
npm ERR! Refusing to delete C:\<pathToNode>\npm.cmd: is outside C:\<pathToNode>\node_modules\npm and not a link
npm ERR! File exists: C:\<pathToNode>\npm.cmd
npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm

If I remove all 4 files that were complained about, I finally got "npm not found"...
Running

C:\<pathToNode>\node_modules\npm\bin\npm install -g npm

leeds to other errors

[DerekNonGeneric]

If I remove all 4 files that were complained about, I finally got "npm not found"...

I don't think you were supposed to delete those. I would probably uninstall and reinstall at this point if I were you. For Windows, I have been using nvs to manage Node.js versions, which includes npm. Might want to give that a go.