Lazy Load Homebrew NVM but still have default aliased Node in PATH

.zshrc

# normal brew nvm shell config lines minus the 2nd one
# lazy loading the bash completions does not save us meaningful shell startup time, so we won't do it
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

# add our default nvm node (`nvm alias default 10.16.0`) to path without loading nvm
export PATH="$NVM_DIR/versions/node/v$(<$NVM_DIR/alias/default)/bin:$PATH"
# alias `nvm` to this one liner lazy load of the normal nvm script
alias nvm="unalias nvm; [ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"; nvm $@"

@yo1dog your solution (mac) seems to create an infine loop for me

You running with BASH or ZSH? I found that BASH does not allow for local outside of functions which causes an error and an infinite loop as DEFAULT_NODE_VER is empty and [ -s ... ] on a directory always returns 0.

I updated the script to remove local so it should work under BASH as well.

@LeonardoGentile if you echo $PATH, is the path to node in there correctly? If you copied my example exactly, but then use the v in the version you make default, it probably is not correct. You can specify the version without the v, modify the script to not add it, or use the first example @yo1dog posted that takes care of it either way.

That was it 👍

@yo1dog your solution (mac) seems to create an infine loop for me

You running with BASH or ZSH? I found that BASH does not allow for local outside of functions which causes an error and an infinite loop as DEFAULT_NODE_VER is empty and [ -s ... ] on a directory always returns 0.

I updated the script to remove local so it should work under BASH as well.

On bash, that why 👍 thanks

Works great, thanks! It would make it even clearer if you made sure to add comments about:

• Running nvm alias default [preffered node-version]
• Changing "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" to your local nvm.sh location

Worked just fine on MacOS and zsh 👍 . One small caveat I noticed by using this is that you cannot run which nvm anymore, it will echo the executable output instead of returning the bin location.