STsteelbrain·May 3, 2021
This looks too complicated, I prefer the simpler solution: tj/n (https://github.com/tj/n)
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Installs n, the Node.js version manager, without needing to install Node.js first: curl -L https://bit.ly/n-install | bash
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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3 sourcesn is still the simplest node version manager I've come across [0]. Maybe worth checking out if you're looking for an alternative.
I also use the companion n-install [1] utility to get setup very quickly.
[0] https://github.com/tj/n
[1] https://github.com/mklement0/n-install
In Asdf – An Extendable Version ManagerI didn't mean that this is going to happen. I wanted to give an example of a potential threat. My idea was to show one of many problems with centralization and relying so much in GitHub and GitHub SSL certs.
Maybe we can start signing our commits to increase security giving the potential threat. The same way that after the Snowden revelations we started using more and more HTTPS.
We can also think of better ways of sharing/releasing open source code. Debian has a pretty neat system with keys so it's pretty safe to install software from their repos [1]. Maybe there is a better system to be develop than just grabbing whatever from GitHub[2] and running it in your machine.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Development_procedures
[2] https://github.com/mklement0/n-install/blob/master/bin/n-ins...
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