fnm VS asdf-nodejs

Install nodejs: (I highly recommend using a node version manager like fnm) and to install a recent node version (current long term support is 16+)

I highly recommend setting up nodejs with a version manager, nvm was and still is a popular option, however, I now recommend and have been using fnm, a simpler and faster alternative to manage my nodejs versions.

I switched from nvm to fnm a few years ago and have never looked back. Zero performance issues and it supports .nvmrc files.

https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

Are you using some kind of node version manager like fnm?

If it's your terminal that's slow in general and not neovim specifically I found that switching from nvm to fnm for managing node significantly faster at starting up my shell. I don't know whether this is what your issue is but I thought I'd share it regardless. https://github.com/Schniz/fnm

fnm is a fast and simple Node.js version manager. It's really easy to use and is much faster than nvm.

As a macOS user, it boils my brain whenever I've to type in something like ~/Library/Application Support/org.rust-lang.Cargo/config.toml. macOS users have been begging CLI tools to support XDG variables on macOS too. Setting defaults is a strong indication to the community what should be the "preferred" locations. The defaults defined in your article will invariably lead to some authors saying that if that path is good enough for cargo, then it is good enough for their tool. Even the latest draft RFC acknowledges that macOS should use XDG variables too. I've written more about this here.

Install something like Fast Node Manager from https://github.com/Schniz/fnm and install your Node from there. I work in the software field and tend to use the LTS releases for the TypeScript/React projects I work on.

fnm!

You’ll need pnpm and Node.js installed on your machine + some tool for switching node versions (e.g. fnm or nvm will work fine);

Not nix based, but I really like https://github.com/jdx/mise too to manage dev tools.

It’s a modern version of https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf written in Rust.

That's what I would suggest as well. WSL2 and use asdf[1] to manage the erlang/elixir versions.

[1]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

echo "Installing nodejs with asdf" asdf plugin add nodejs https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git asdf install nodejs latest asdf global nodejs latest

However this is still a neat script OP! I was looking for something like this when installing Go for the first time and was contemplating between goenv, gvm, and asdf before settling on brew.

Have you tried this? https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs#nvmrc-and-node-versio...

Also lts, lts-hydrogen, etc are available to install I can see when running `asdf list all nodejs`

How does this compare to nvm or asdf?

I'm not too familiar with installing Ruby on Mac, but you could try using a ruby version manager (like rbenv or asdf).

For more information, or if you need help on this awesome tool, don’t hesitate to head over to asdf-vm.com. Also, feel free to star the GitHub Repository of asdf to support the team behind this project. 😉

nvm was adding a huge delay to my shell startup and starting node. There are faster ones out there like n https://github.com/tj/n or fnm https://github.com/Schniz/fnm I use fnm there are also similar tools that work with multiple languages like asdf https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

Now, what you want is to have multiple Python versions installed in your system. The most used way on Linux is pyenv, I think. Another one that I found is asdf. I'd try that before pyenv because pyenv is a bit quirky to install.