nave VS nvm

Compare nave vs nvm and see what are their differences.

nvm

Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions (by nvm-sh)
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nave nvm
1 313
1,592 75,557
- 2.0%
5.8 7.8
3 months ago about 1 month ago
Shell Shell
ISC License MIT License
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nave

Posts with mentions or reviews of nave. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-22.
  • Volta vs. Nvm for JavaScript Tooling
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021
    I'll throw nave (https://github.com/isaacs/nave) in there as well.

    I'm leery of things that globally mess with my environment. When I run "nave use latest" or "nave auto" (for predictable setup) then it creates a subshell that knows about node. Very self-contained, which I find necessary.

nvm

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nave and nvm you can also consider the following projects:

nvm for Windows - A node.js version management utility for Windows. Ironically written in Go.

nvs - Node Version Switcher - A cross-platform tool for switching between versions and forks of Node.js

nodeenv - Virtual environment for Node.js & integrator with virtualenv

fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust

n - Node version management

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

Scullog

corepack - Zero-runtime-dependency package acting as bridge between Node projects and their package managers

volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

nodenv - Manage multiple NodeJS versions.

SDKMan - The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface