NVM in npm is not the right one?

[deiga]

There's an nvm package in npm but it looks to be totally different. Whats the story there?

[ljharb]

Someone must have taken the name. This nvm is not meant to be installed via npm, since it's used to install node/npm itself.

[ljharb]

Duplicate of https://github.com/brianloveswords/nvm/issues/5

[ljharb]

tl;dr: I now have control over the package on npm, and as soon as nvm is at v1.0.0, I'll start publishing nvm.sh there.

However, it's kind of meaningless to install nvm from npm, since nvm is used to install npm in the first place, so it will only serve to prevent the current footgun that exists.

[danfinlay]

Oh great, thanks a ton for doing this!

I would also encourage a descriptive warning when nvm is installed incorrectly using npm, ideally an error that gives specific instructions on how to correctly install nvm from that state, to minimize the friction to a correct install.

[ljharb]

My plan is to actually have npm install nvm not do anything useful, and npm install -g nvm simply initiate the standard installation procedure (or update, if it's already installed), so you shouldn't need any additional steps.

[danfinlay]

Oh that's great, so you will be able to npm i -g nvm! Fantastic.