asdf
Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more (by asdf-vm)
volta
Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡ (by volta-cli)
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| asdf | volta | |
|---|---|---|
| 288 | 70 | |
| 17,080 | 7,747 | |
| 2.5% | 3.7% | |
| 8.0 | 9.2 | |
| 6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Shell | Rust | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
asdf
Posts with mentions or reviews of asdf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.
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Discussion Thread
you’re going to run into stuff like this whether you’re using wsl or a vm, it’s just big standard dependency hell. pyenv or asdf make it pretty simple to ensure you have the right active python version in your environment asdf is particularly useful since it works for other cli tools aside from python
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Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers
Yeah, I feel this. I recently added a .tool-versions file to a website repository (that non-programmers need to edit) and updated the README to say "install asdf (https://asdf-vm.com/) and then run `pnpm install`". And then I saw people try to follow the instructions and start needing to install Xcode, then Homebrew, etc., and it took forever. I think the right solution is to give them a 1-click cloud IDE with the repository loaded and a live preview running in the background.
- PEP 704 – Require virtual environments by default for package installers
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Deploying CLIs to developer machines
I’ve published a few golang CLIs at various gigs for handling internal administration type tasks. Once I have a project publishing releases to GitHub, I also create an asdf plug-in for it. They’re pretty straightforward. Not only does it become easy to distribute, but folks can switch between versions easily.
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Discussion: about "go install" versus brew when available
Otherwise I use https://asdf-vm.com/ to manage stuff not tied to a specific project.
That's not related to Homebrew but you can check version management with asdf and golang plugin
- Python is two languages now, and that's great
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What are your preferred method(s) for installing multiple python versions on macOS?
asdf
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Python update on 7.0 Horus
I would normally suggest asdf for this but it choked on my systems trying to build 3.11.
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Choose the best java distribution for project.
I'm having a blast with it. Certain platforms have binaries available but I've been using SKDMan and asdf-vm with no issues and doesn't get in the way of your platform's JDK version if you have it as a dependency.
volta
Posts with mentions or reviews of volta.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-04.
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TypeScript tooling and ecosystem
Prefer Volta over NVM. Much better UX and its inherently cross-platform.
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Held broken package error
Have you tried to use nvm or volta to manage node? https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm https://volta.sh/
- How to Install Multiple Node.js Versions On the Same Machine
- Is there a project level way to specify nvm versions and avoid nvm use?
- zsh plugin for lazy loading nvm (no more lags)
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Best dev environment for windows 11
i fixed the error by installing volta.sh
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Flatpaks 🥰
I don't know if you tried it already, but there's nvm for that (or Volta if we're being blazingly fast 🚀🚀🚀)
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Achieving end-to-end type safety in a modern JS GraphQL stack
If you don't have Node or Yarn on your machine, you can install them easily with Volta:
- Why does zsh start so slowly?
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pnpm can manage Node.js version like nvm !
If you using nvm or Volta to manage node versions now pnpm can do that too.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing asdf and volta you can also consider the following projects:
pyenv - Simple Python version management
SDKMan - The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface
fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
rbenv - Manage your app's Ruby environment
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
nvm for Windows - A node.js version management utility for Windows. Ironically written in Go.
jenv - Manage your Java environment
RVM - Ruby enVironment Manager (RVM)