#version manager

[x-yuri]

[roman01la-blog]

Tip: Use NVM to manage multiple Node.js versions

When you need both stable and unstable Node.js releases or trying to check your application on multiple Node versions or when someone reports an issue caused using another Node version. In these and other cases or without any it's a good practice to have a tool for managing multiple versions of whatever.

Similar to RVM for Ruby, there's NVM for Node.js. Node Version Manager helps me a lot, at first I started using it because of a simple Node.js runtime installation process, now I'm using all of its benefits.

Running this command will fetch and execute shell script which will install NVM for you:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.8.0/install.sh | sh

Install Node.js version you need: nvm install 0.10.29

Install Node.js latest 0.10.x release: nvm install 0.10

List installed versions: nvm ls

List versions available for installation: nvm ls-remote

Activate another installed version: nvm use 0.11

Set a default Node version: nvm alias default 0.10.29

There's also .nvmrc dotfile where you can specify Node.js version for your project and run nvm install to automatically install and use it.

More usage options

My must-have setup is:

nvm install 0.10

nvm alias default 0.10

nvm install 0.11

nvm alias unstable 0.11