all-nvm

all-nvm

Run any NPM command (including install) in all versions of Node managed by NVM

Inspiration

Part of my favorite little Node tools

If you are like me, you have probably several Node versions installed locally and managed using NVM. I also use bunch of small global tools like npm-quick-run, next-update, center-code. It is very frustrating to run

center <filename>
center: command not found
#$#$! I have not installed center-code in this Node version yet

I need to quickly install same tool in all Node versions.

Install

npm i -g all-nvm

Installs itseslf under several aliases: all-nvm, nvm-all and my favorite alias all. Make all-nvm available in all Node versions right after install

all npm i -g all-nvm

Use

With all-nvm it is simple to run the same command in all Node versions managed by NVM. For example, if you want to speed up NPM installs by removing the progress indicator

all npm set progress=false

Install a global tool as-a in all Node versions

all npm i -g as-a

Run unit tests in the current project in all local Node versions (similar to testen or trevor)

all npm test

Limit Node versions

You can pick which versions of Node to use using --node (-n) command line option. Uses prefix matching via semver.satisfies

all --node 4 node -v
# runs on all installed Node 4 versions (like 4.1.0, 4.2.2, etc)
all -n 0.10,5 npm test
# runs `npm test` on Node 5 and 0.10

With this feature, you can use all-nvm to quickly unit tests across multiple Node versions, like testen or trevor

Hint

You can see all NPM global packages already installed by running

npm ls -g --depth 0

Details

I was inspired by the command exec already available in NVM - it runs any command in the specified Node version. For example

nvm exec 4 node -v
Running node v4.2.2 (npm v3.7.2)
v4.2.2

Since NVM itself is a shell script, one has to play games in order to shell a command, for example to run nvm --version

sh -c '. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh && nvm --version'

and to run same command on a particular Node version

sh -c '. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh && nvm exec <node version> <command>'

Debug

To see verbose output from this tool, run with environment variable DEBUG set to all

DEBUG=all all ...

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov © 2016

• @bahmutov
• glebbahmutov.com
• blog

License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

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Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Gleb Bahmutov

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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