Volta vs. Nvm for JavaScript Tooling

• nvm

  314 75,882 7.5 Shell

  Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

  

this version check https://github.com/bdefore/dotfiles/blob/53a2e00c236a2d581ac... is much faster than the officially suggested https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#automatically-call-nvm-use (or at least used to be)

• fnm

  62 15,577 6.7 Rust

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

* FNM: https://fnm.vercel.app/

I started with NVM, which is so slow that I'm confused (and maybe even impressed) as to how it's possible to be so slow.

Then I switched to FNM, which is delightfully not-slow.

Then I switched to Volta, because it supports installing standalone "tools" other than just Node, like Yarn and the various LSP servers that I use.

I tried N but don't use it. It seems to have a more "interactive" UI than FNM or Volta, so use N if you like that kind of thing.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• volta

  84 9,994 9.1 Rust

  Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

  

• n

  50 18,524 7.0 Shell

  Node version management

• nave

  1 1,592 5.8 Shell

  Virtual Environments for Node

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.

• dotfiles

  1 5 7.3 CSS

this version check https://github.com/bdefore/dotfiles/blob/53a2e00c236a2d581ac... is much faster than the officially suggested https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#automatically-call-nvm-use (or at least used to be)

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