SDKMan VS asdf-nodejs

SDKman UI aims to offer a (cross-platform) Graphical User Interface for SDKMAN. It extends the functionality of the terminal-tool SDKMAN with a user interface, but also makes the tool available for Window systems.

I used sdkman for switching between multiple Java versions, and in this case I used java 17.0.12. For the Flutter version, I used fvm and used flutter 3.24.0 on this project.

The reason I picked this issue is because the project was in Java. I've wanted to work with Java for a while because despite it's popularity I haven't had much exposure to it. Meaning with this issue, I was working in a completely new language ecosystem. Luckily, the very week before, I'd started learning a bit of Java on the side. I still had to learn some tricks, like managing installations of different versions of Java and Gradle - SDKMAN! really came in clutch here, but to use this tool I had to work in WSL, because it only supports Linux, which meant I did have to figure out how to set up IntelliJ in WSL, but that was fine with me because my existing development setup for JavaScript is already entirely WSL-based.

Install SDKMAN

On Linux and macOS: SDKMAN! is a SDK manager specialzed in the Java ecosystem. Instructions on how to manage JDKs is provided here.

I use https://sdkman.io/ to manage JVM versions, have you tried that? I haven't used Cursive, maybe it does something weird, but in general IntelliJ seems to accept it just fine in my everyday work.

I would suggest learning how to use SDKMAN: https://sdkman.io/

It will manage the JDK for you. Usage is basically this:

   # Install a JDK, that version is now default

Alternatively, you can use sdkman. A great tool to install your Software Development Kit. The downside is that it only works on *nix systems. So for Widnows users, you will have to use WSL or Cygwin as the official page suggests. It is really simple to use sdkman. after a successful installation, just type those commands into your *nix shell:

To run the example, you must install the Auth0 CLI and create an Auth0 account. If you don't have an Auth0 account, sign up for free. I recommend using SDKMAN! to install Java 17+ and HTTPie for making HTTP requests.

A plugin is just a set of clever shell scripts that let asdf select the proper version of a specific command (e.g., check the Node.js plugin). The commands in the bin directory just implement what asdf must execute when you use the Node.js plugin to install a new version, select a specific version for use, etc.

asdf plugin-add nodejs https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git

I have used a similar tool asdf before, but the previous experience of using asdf was not very good (I don’t mean to step on it~, the ASDF ecosystem is very strong), vfox now supports a lot of plugins, and can already manage the versions of most common mainstream languages.

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).