Installing node with brew fails on Mac OS Sierra

I'm trying to install node with homebrew on macOS Sierra. I run

 brew install node

After a seemingly successful install I get the following when trying to run node:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.58.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/node
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

Solution 1:

This is the series of incantations that eventually worked for me based on this link suggested by @robertklep and @vovkasm.

brew uninstall --force node
brew uninstall icu4c && brew install icu4c
brew unlink icu4c && brew link icu4c --force
brew install node

I'm not sure if they're all needed, but given that I can't get my machine in the previous state... I'll just leave this info here, maybe it'll be useful for somebody else.

Solution 2:

In my case, brew upgrade node resolve the problem :)

Solution 3:

Well I got this error trying to install @angular/cli, realized node might be out of date. Following @mircealungu 's exact steps didn't quite work for me, here is the modified version that worked for me.

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force node
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force icu4c
brew install icu4c
brew unlink icu4c && brew link icu4c --force
brew install node

Solution 4:

Upgrading node fixed a problem.

brew upgrade node 

Solution 5:

I recently encountered a similar issue (after doing brew switch node 9.8.0 to downgrade to a previous version of node)

dyld: Library not loaded: 
/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.60.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/node
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

The issue is that node is picky about which version of icu4c it's looking for, and the version I had installed (62) was higher than node was expecting.

To fix, I made sure I had version 60 of icu4c selected.

First I found which versions I had with brew info icu4c, then did brew switch icu4c 60.2 to select the one node was expecting.