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Virtual Environments for Node

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Virtual Environments for Node

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If you want to play with this new version but also have code running on older versions that hasn't been completely ported yet, I recommend using nave to manage your node…

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2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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andrewla·Nov 22, 2021

I'll throw nave (https://github.com/isaacs/nave) in there as well. I'm leery of things that globally mess with my environment. When I run "nave use latest" or "nave auto" (for predictable setup) then it creates a subshell that knows about node. Very self-contained, which I find necessary.

In Volta vs. Nvm for JavaScript Tooling

rphillips·Jun 19, 2014

Check out nave [1]. It will simplify your docker nodejs setup. [1] https://github.com/isaacs/nave

In Develop a Node.js app with Docker

bnuhero·Jul 28, 2013

Nave[1] works like a charm for me. [1]https://github.com/isaacs/nave

In Node v0.10.14 (Stable)

substack·Jun 26, 2012Recommendation phrase

If you want to play with this new version but also have code running on older versions that hasn't been completely ported yet, I recommend using nave to manage your node versions. After you `npm install -g nave` you can just `nave install 0.8.0` to get node 0.8 then type `nave use 0.8.0` to start using it! https://github.com/isaacs/nave

In Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out

nailer·Feb 10, 2011

> A specially named directory, node_modules/, is searched in the current directory for any modules. Awesome. Currently NPM expects unprivileged users to have access to /usr/local, and a lot of node tutorials encourage global repermissioning of this directory, which is Bad Unix. Hopefully, once NPM gets updated, you'll have a Python virtualenv/Ruby equivalent style project-specific install system. Update: https://github.com/isaacs/nave says Nave provides virtualenvs for Node, which may be worth checking out.

In Node v0.4 announcement