chnode

Chnode.sh

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Change between installed Node version in your current shell with a simple chnode VERSION. Leaves the system version untouched. Works out of the box with Mac's Homebrew.

Tour

• Change only the current shell without affecting the rest of the system.
• Works out of the box with paths used by Mac's Homebrew.
• Extendable by adding more Node paths to the NODES variable.
• Leaves installing Node versions to your package manager thereby adhering to the do one thing and do it well principle.
• Works in Bash and Zsh. And possibly other POSIX compatible shells.
• Does not pollute your shell namespaces with internal functions.
• Lightweight.
• Written in the shell language. KISS.

Side note: I'm terribly ashamed of not yet having tests!

Installing

Install Chnode.sh globally with:

npm install --global chnode

Then source it in your shell:

. "$(npm bin --global)/chnode"

For convenience you might want to put the output of the following in your .zshrc or .bashrc.
It'll be faster than running the line above with npm bin which will slow down your shell loading.

echo ". \"$(npm bin --global)/chnode\""

Using

Change between installed Node versions with:

chnode 0.11.7

Options

Option	Description
-h, -?, --help	Display this help.
-r, --refresh	Refresh and find all available Node versions.
-l, --list	List all available Node versions.

Configuring

On the Mac Chnode.sh will find installed Nodes in /usr/local/Cellar/node.
If you've got installations somewhere else, set the NODES variable to an array of paths of individual versions:

NODES+=(~./.nodes/*)

For example, if you've got Node compiled from the source at ~/Development/node-master, append that:

NODES+=(~/Development/node-master)

If you think Chnode.sh should detect some of your paths automatically, please let me know by creating an issue. Thanks!

License

Chnode.sh is released under a Lesser GNU Affero General Public License, which in summary means:

• You can use this program for no cost.
• You can use this program for both personal and commercial reasons.
• You do not have to share your own program's code which uses this program.
• You have to share modifications (e.g bug-fixes) you've made to this program.

For more convoluted language, see the LICENSE file.

About

Andri Möll typed this and the code.
Monday Calendar supported the engineering work.

If you find Chnode.sh needs improving, please don't hesitate to type to me now at [e-mail] or create an issue online.

Changelog

1.0.0 (Jan 18, 2014)

• Sh! Here's a compliment: POSIX shell is more consistent than Ruby.