nevermind

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nevermind

a node version manager

A play on nvm. Inspired by both nvm-sh and nvm-windows, which were written in shell and go, respectively.

Installation (WIP)

Currently in development.

Requirements:

1. Docker
2. VSCode

Getting Started:

1. Use/Open in VSCode devcontainer (.devcontainer directory) extension
2. Run the go package download prompts
3. Call the nvm scripts directly with go run:

go run ./nvm install 16.0.0

go run ./nvm use 16.0.0

This should have created a ~/.nevermind/config.json file pointing to the version you've set to use, and installed that version to ~/.nevermind/node/.

Run with DEBUG=1 to output debug logs:

DEBUG=1 go run ./nvm install 16.0.0

After install, and use, you might need to build the executable:

go build -o ~/.nevermind/bin ./nvm-shim

Make sure this directory is in your PATH (perhaps via .bashrc):

export PATH="$HOME/.nevermind/bin:$PATH"

If this is all set up, you should be able to run:

node -v

(WIP) npm, npx, and anything installed via npm i -g

Remaining tasks

• Access to npm and npx executables
  • possible now by building nvm-shim to PATH as node, then symlinking npm and npx to the shim
• Build script for nvm-shim, and symlinking node, npm, and npx
• github actions for building and generating tags and packages
  • no idea if this is what I want
• install script (bash?)
  • I want a way to automatically build nvm-shim, update PATH, create binary symlinks on installation
• progress bar on node download
• search for matching node download if only major or minor numbers are given
• ability to download latest LTS
• documentation Maybe done with godoc
• tests
• automatically call install when use doesn't match
• automatically call use after install
• make sure there's no infinite loops of install and use
• figure out go mod versioning??
• write install script for windows (extracting zip at minimum)
• figure out global installs (e.g. npm i -g yarn)
  • it goes to node/v/bin as a symlink
• optimize downloads and untar/ungzip with streams
  • ideally download to file & ungzip & sha at the same time with io.MultiWriter (am I crazy?)