Shim node, npm and yarn binaries to use the correct version according to
engines field in package.json.
This app is a work in progress so a lot of features that you would expect are missing. Some known issues are:
- No Windows support (#4)
- No support for advanced semver ranges (#7)
- Global node, npm and yarn binaries are only searched from
/usr/local/bin(#2)
That said I've been able to completely replace nvm on my machine with
node-shim. I hope you'll try it and tell me how it went!
You can download the latest release from
GitHub releases. Extract the file
and run the install.sh script. By default it copies the necessary files to
~/bin.
For the files to work you should have ~/bin in your $PATH environment
variable before paths that might have global node, npm or yarn binaries.
After installation your node, npm and yarn binaries try to use the versions
defined in the engines field in a package.json file found by traversing up
in the file hierarchy. If no package.json with an engines field is found the
shims use global installation of the programs.
You can install new program versions with the node-shim install command:
node-shim install node 9.5.0
node-shim install yarn 1.3.2node-shim can be controlled with several environment variables.
To enable debug logging to stderr set this variable to "true".
Path where to look program versions from. Defaults to ~/.local/opt/node-shim.
Force $PROGRAM to resolve to certain version. For example to always use
version 1.3.2 of yarn set this environment variable:
export NODE_SHIM_YARN_VERSION=1.3.2Source code is available at GitHub.
You need to install OPAM 2.0 using the instructions in the documentation.
# Create a new local opam switch with the correct compiler
cd node-shim/
opam switch create . 4.07.0 --deps-only --with-test
# If you already have a local switch you can update it with
opam install . --deps-only --with-test
# Compile everything and run tests
make
# Run executable
./_build/install/default/bin/node-shim