I was recently figuring out how to use nvm, and one thing that stood out to me is that I needed to set the default version of node that I wanted to use when opening a new tab.
Because I was new to using nvm it took me a while to find the commands. So, if you happen to find this article while configuring nvm, hopefully you find this useful.
# Install the version that you would likenvm install 6.1.0# Set 6.1.0 (or another version) as defaultnvm alias default 6.1.0
Then you can open a new tab and if you run node -v, you should see v6.1.0 (or whichever version you set as the default.
Easy peasy, right? Hopefully this helps you if you’re having some issues!
Thanks for sharing, I was having this same problem with nvm, and I didn’t even realize it! Does that make sense :p
Makes sense to me 😀 I could totally see how someone would think that they just had to use
nvm use 6.1.0each time they opened a tab, because that’s what I did for a little bit. 😜https://github.com/wbyoung/avn is pretty handy too. It looks for a special dotfile and automatically switches the node version.
And here I was trying to be helpful to others, and I learned something. 😉
There’s also this monster issue on the nvm repo: https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/110
Obrigado !
I find nvm to be pretty slow, so I install the latest version with homebrew and just use nvm if I want to temporarily switch to a different version. If you load it with –no-use, it’s much faster, but you have to manually activate whatever version you want.
https://github.com/joshbetz/dotfiles/blob/407c2828839ac12bfdd17c5f84c2d6bc0df0e944/shell/env#L7-L9