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Node Version Managers

I tried nvm many years ago and it had several issues that I remember:

  • Setup was not as simple compared to n at the time
  • It was quite slow moving from one Node version to another
  • Couldn't automatically switch the Node version when entering a folder (now they cover that)
    • In the past I used avn for that, but it was slow as well
  • Global packages were lost when moving from one Node version to another
    • Tbh, fnm has the same issue now, hopefully they'll add support for it soon
  • Didn't support Windows or needed an extra package to support it

I used n for years and recently used Volta which was great but didn't support .node-version or .nvmrc files as configs (only inside package.json).

fnm seems to be the next step in that evolution.

Basically, most JS tools are moving to Rust it seems 😄

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