volta
Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡ (by volta-cli)
nvs
Node Version Switcher - A cross-platform tool for switching between versions and forks of Node.js (by jasongin)
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| volta | nvs | |
|---|---|---|
| 67 | 10 | |
| 7,464 | 2,201 | |
| 4.0% | - | |
| 9.3 | 5.2 | |
| about 20 hours ago | 26 days ago | |
| Rust | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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.
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 2023-01-16.
- 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.
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Language Version Managers - the Developer Parachutes
In the Node world, there are a few options like NVM, N, FNM, Volta, and more. I've been a longtime user of NVM, so we'll detail those instructions for use here:
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Installing Node on my chromebook need Help
You should be able to install using Debian’s package manager (https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/). Sometimes the Debian package repos do not provide the latest Node.js versions; in that case you can download a precompiled binary of your desired version from the official downloads page or, as others have suggested, use a version manager like Volta (https://volta.sh) or asdf-vm (https://asdf-vm.com).
nvs
Posts with mentions or reviews of nvs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-16.
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Awful Upgrade Experience: Use node 11, wants node 14. Use node 14, wants node 11
There is also node version switcher (nvs) https://github.com/jasongin/nvs which I found better then nvm if you dont want to go the full wsl route.
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3 Useful Node.js Version Managers
nvm can only be used in projects for macOS and Linux users. If you are Windows users, you can use nvm-windows, nodist or nvs.
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Which Node.js manager do you use on?
nvs
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installing older versions of node
I use nvs (https://github.com/jasongin/nvs). I'm sure nvm is good too, but I really like the menu you get when you run it without any arguments.. Also nvs has a Windows version, whereas nvm is POSIX OSes only.
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NVM is completely broken, how can I fix it?
I've run export NVS_HOME="$HOME/.nvs" and git clone https://github.com/jasongin/nvs "$NVS_HOME" but am running into problem when trying to run . "$NVS_HOME/nvs.sh" install.
- 極簡 nvm 使用指南
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Easy Way to Install Multiple Version of Node JS
Download the NVS msi file here (windows installer), then install it the same way as you install other windows applications.
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What Version Manager do you use?
nvs has been working pretty flawlessly for me.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing volta and nvs you can also consider the following projects:
nvm for Windows - A node.js version management utility for Windows. Ironically written in Go.
fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
n - Node version management
nushell - A new type of shell
Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
rustdesk - Open source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! The open source TeamViewer alternative. Display and control your PC and Android devices from anywhere at anytime.
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
asdf-nodejs - Node.js plugin for asdf version manager