Volta

Volta.md

Volta

https://volta.sh/

A really nice tool to manage the different Node.js/npm/yarn versions between projects:

The problems it solves

• Making sure everyone who works on the project uses the same Node.js/npm/yarn version for consistent dependencies tree and Node.js execution.
• Switching the Node.js version when jumping between projects.
• Not losing your global packages when switching the Node.js version (I think that was a problem with nvm).
• Cross platform solution (nvm/n don't work on Windows).

Other Notes

• Built with Rust, so it's really fast.
• More seamless then the alternatives (nvm auto-switch, avn).
  • Basically it hijacks the precedence of finding the node/npm/yarn executables in your PATH and redirects to the proper versions based on a setting in your package.json.
  • So, it can be installed alongside the other tools to try out and can be removed without causing problems.

I personally uninstalled everything else and now using only Volta.
Although maybe that wasn't such a good idea:
volta-cli/volta#282 (comment)

Why not engines from package.json?

• volta-cli/volta#355
• volta-cli/volta#742

Why not .nvmrc or .node-version?

• volta-cli/volta#282

How does it work?

it hijacks the precedence of finding the node/npm/yarn executables in your PATH and redirects to the proper versions based on a setting in your package.json.