Creates a symlink to /usr/bin/node after using nvm

nvmlink

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

sudo rm -f /usr/bin/node
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/npm
sudo ln -s $(which node) /usr/bin/
sudo ln -s $(which npm) /usr/bin/

This is great

Thank you so much ❤️

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Thanks for that answer! On Newer Macs it is /usr/local/bin

Thanks @MonksterFX

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If you don't want to have to update the symlink after setting another node version via nvm, just run:

sudo ln -s node /usr/bin/

/usr/bin/node will point to node then instead of a specific version which would happen when using $(which node). Of course you should do the same for npm.

A little more robust...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5767062/how-to-check-if-a-symlink-exists
https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_man_pages/seth.html

Thanks for the post, I googled if nvm had a flag and this was the first result :) good stuff

#!/bin/bash

set -eEB

if [ -e /usr/bin/node ]; then

  sudo rm -f /usr/bin/node

fi

if [ -e /usr/bin/npm ]; then

  sudo rm -f /usr/bin/npm

fi

sudo ln -s "$(which node)" /usr/bin/

sudo ln -s "$(which npm)" /usr/bin/

If you don't want to have to update the symlink after setting another node version via nvm, just run:

sudo ln -s node /usr/bin/

/usr/bin/node will point to node then instead of a specific version which would happen when using $(which node). Of course you should do the same for npm.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that only works for if node is already in $PATH which defeats the point of this script, which is to force node from nvm into $PATH for applications that don't support it (because most distros/apps by default will have /usr/bin in $PATH).

To be clear, I think this is a bad practice. Each user should have their own nvm installation and $NVM_DIR in $PATH.

I only originally did this because NVM was causing some frictions with WebStorm, as I couldn't make WebStorm read NVM_DIR. But nowadays WebStorm seems to support NVM natively and I personally don't have any use cases for this script.

sudo ln -s node /usr/bin/

this is the best option, IMHO. Modify once and forget forever

Nice one!

thanks for this

thank youu!

The latest one linked sudo ln -s node /usr/bin can lead to recursive symlinks. However, using the original 4 liner at the beginning of the gist works reliably.