Managing multiple node versions with NVM

NVM is great indeed, thank you for putting this together Chris Bongers.

I use this tiny shell script in my .zshrc file that looks for a .nvmrc file, and automatically switches to the node version defined there, or falls back to the default one if can't find the file.

autoload -U add-zsh-hook
load-nvmrc() {
  local node_version="$(nvm version)"
  local nvmrc_path="$(nvm_find_nvmrc)"

  if [ -n "$nvmrc_path" ]; then
    local nvmrc_node_version=$(nvm version "$(cat "${nvmrc_path}")")

    if [ "$nvmrc_node_version" = "N/A" ]; then
      nvm install
    elif [ "$nvmrc_node_version" != "$node_version" ]; then
      nvm use
    fi
  elif [ "$node_version" != "$(nvm version default)" ]; then
    echo "Reverting to nvm default version"
    nvm use default
  fi
}
add-zsh-hook chpwd load-nvmrc
load-nvmrc

It will help those who don't use VS Code 🙂

What are your thoughts on Volta as an alternative?

This is so helpful, I’ve been wanting to use this but always get stuck on editing the profile. Thank you!