diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ba70a95..0c1a910b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 This changelog only contains breaking and/or significant changes manually introduced to this repository (using Pull Requests).
 All image manifests can be found in [the wiki](https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/wiki).
 
+## 2024-11-08
+
+Affected: all images except `docker-stacks-foundation`.
+
+- **Breaking:** `base-notebook`: stop installing `nodejs` from `conda-forge` ([#2172](https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/pull/2172)).
+
+  Reason: It isn't a direct dependency on anything in the images any more, and increased the image size with ~150MB.
+
 ## 2024-11-06
 
 Affected: all images except `docker-stacks-foundation`.
diff --git a/docs/using/recipe_code/jupyterhub_version.dockerfile b/docs/using/recipe_code/jupyterhub_version.dockerfile
index 22c9dfa1..bc6b2c11 100644
--- a/docs/using/recipe_code/jupyterhub_version.dockerfile
+++ b/docs/using/recipe_code/jupyterhub_version.dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 FROM quay.io/jupyter/base-notebook
 
-RUN mamba install --yes 'jupyterhub-base==4.0.1' && \
+RUN mamba install --yes 'jupyterhub-singleuser==4.0.1' && \
     mamba clean --all -f -y && \
     fix-permissions "${CONDA_DIR}" && \
     fix-permissions "/home/${NB_USER}"
diff --git a/docs/using/selecting.md b/docs/using/selecting.md
index c21a1036..d02e1624 100644
--- a/docs/using/selecting.md
+++ b/docs/using/selecting.md
@@ -54,9 +54,7 @@ It contains:
 
 - Everything in `jupyter/docker-stacks-foundation`
 - Minimally functional Server (e.g., no LaTeX support for saving notebooks as PDFs)
-- `notebook`, `jupyterhub-base`, and `jupyterlab` packages
-  Note: we're also installing `nodejs` as it has historically been installed indirectly as a dependency of `jupyterhub` package, which was used before.
-  See more at: <https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/pull/2171>
+- `notebook`, `jupyterhub-singleuser`, and `jupyterlab` packages
 - A `start-notebook.py` script as the default command
 - A `start-singleuser.py` script useful for launching containers in JupyterHub
 - Options for a self-signed HTTPS certificate
diff --git a/images/base-notebook/Dockerfile b/images/base-notebook/Dockerfile
index 261cf3e6..84014f7c 100644
--- a/images/base-notebook/Dockerfile
+++ b/images/base-notebook/Dockerfile
@@ -39,15 +39,9 @@ USER ${NB_UID}
 # files across image layers when the permissions change
 WORKDIR /tmp
 RUN mamba install --yes \
-    'jupyterhub-base' \
+    'jupyterhub-singleuser' \
     'jupyterlab' \
     'nbclassic' \
-    # nodejs has historically been installed indirectly as a dependency.
-    # When it was no longer getting installed indirectly,
-    # we started installing it explicitly to avoid introducing a breaking change
-    # for users building on top of these images.
-    # See: https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks/pull/2171
-    'nodejs' \
     # Sometimes, when the new version of `jupyterlab` is released, latest `notebook` might not support it for some time
     # Old versions of `notebook` (<v7) didn't have a restriction on the `jupyterlab` version, and old `notebook` is getting installed
     # That's why we have to pin the minimum notebook version
@@ -55,7 +49,6 @@ RUN mamba install --yes \
     'notebook>=7.2.2' && \
     jupyter server --generate-config && \
     mamba clean --all -f -y && \
-    npm cache clean --force && \
     jupyter lab clean && \
     rm -rf "/home/${NB_USER}/.cache/yarn" && \
     fix-permissions "${CONDA_DIR}" && \
diff --git a/tests/base-notebook/test_npm_package_manager.py b/tests/base-notebook/test_npm_package_manager.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 14f50957..00000000
--- a/tests/base-notebook/test_npm_package_manager.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
-# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
-from tests.conftest import TrackedContainer
-from tests.run_command import run_command
-
-
-def test_npm_package_manager(container: TrackedContainer) -> None:
-    """Test that npm is installed and runs."""
-    run_command(container, "npm --version")
diff --git a/tests/docker-stacks-foundation/test_packages.py b/tests/docker-stacks-foundation/test_packages.py
index a87d51f0..87c3f4bc 100644
--- a/tests/docker-stacks-foundation/test_packages.py
+++ b/tests/docker-stacks-foundation/test_packages.py
@@ -74,10 +74,9 @@ EXCLUDED_PACKAGES = [
     "grpcio-status",
     "grpcio",
     "hdf5",
-    "jupyterhub-base",
+    "jupyterhub-singleuser",
     "jupyterlab-git",
     "mamba[version='<2.0.0']",
-    "nodejs",
     "notebook[version='>",
     "openssl",
     "pandas[version='>",