🤏 Smol Node Manager

Features

• It's fast as it is written in Rust.
• Cross Platfrom (Linux/macOS/Windows)
• Supports .nvmrc, .node-version and package.json
• Supports multiple shells
• Tons of commands and options

Installation

From script (Linux/macOS/Windows)

curl -fsSL https://git.io/JLFnA | bash

Available Params

• --install-dir : Set a custom directory for binary installation. Defaults to $HOME/.snm
• --skip-shell : Skip appending shell specific loader to the $SHELL config file.

From package managers

• Using cargo (Linux/macOS/Windows)

cargo install snm

• Using yay or pamac (Arch Linux)

Why snm is available for Arch? Because I love Arch Linux

# Using `yay`
yay -S snm

# Using `pamac`
pamac build snm

From binaries

Check out the Release page for prebuild binaries for snm, available for different operating systems.

NOTE: snm uses symlinks underneath to manage aliases. So, If you are using Windows make sure you have enabled Developer Mode or your user has permission to create symlinks. You can read more here

Shell

• Bash

Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc

eval "$(snm env bash)"

• Zsh

Add the following line to your ~/.zshrc

eval "$(snm env zsh)"

• Fish

Add the following line to your ~/.config/fish/config.fish

snm env fish | source

• PowerShell

Add the following line to your ~\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

snm env pwsh | Out-String | Invoke-Expression

You can find more about the powershell profile here

Usage

Global Options/Flags

Example:

snm [--snm-dir="~/.something/else"] [--node-dist-mirror="https://myrelease.com"]

Commands

• snm install <version|alias> : Install Nodejs with the provided version or lts codename

# Following command will downloads and installs the most recent 14.x.x release
snm install 14

# Following command will download the most recent lts/fermium release
snm install lts/fermium
# or snm install lts-fermium
# or snm i lts-fermium

• snm uninstall [version|alias] : Removes the installed Nodejs

If given an alias like ten or lts-fermium then it will remove the version which the alias is pointing at and all the aliases which are pointing to the same version. Also, uninstalling a version will throw an error, if multiple installation is found in the same semver range

# Following command will remove 14.x.x installation
snm uninstall 14

# Following command will download the most recent lts/fermium release
snm uninstall lts/fermium
# or snm uninstall lts-fermium
# or snm rm lts-fermium

• snm use [version] : Change Nodejs version, Supports .nvmrc and .node-version

# Following command will use a downloaded version matching 10.x.x
snm use 10

# Searches for `.nvmrc` or `.node-version`, if <version> is not provided
snm use

• snm lts : Installs the recent lts release

• snm latest : Installs the recent current release

• snm ls : List all the local downloaded versions with their aliases

• snm ls-remote [version] : List remote Node.js versions

# Following command list 20 results with version matching 14.x.x
snm ls-remote 14

# This will show all the results
snm ls-remote 14 --all

# Following command will show 25 results
snm ls-remote 14 --count 25

• snm alias <version> <name> : Alias a version to a common name

# Following command will alias the version 10 to ten
# 10 can refer to any semver release ie 10.15.0
snm alias 10 ten

• snm unalias [name] : Removes aliases

# Following command will removes alias `ten`
snm unalias ten

# Removes all the aliases
snm unalias --all

• snm exec <version> : Executes a command within snm context with the modified PATH

# Following command will output the Nodejs version
snm exec 10 -- node -v

# Following command will run yarn with Nodejs v10.x.x
snm exec 10 -- yarn start

• snm prune : Remove all downloaded versions except the installed version

• snm which <version> : Prints path for the downloaded Nodejs version

• snm help <subcommand> or snm <subcommand> --help : Help doc for the subcommand

NOTE: This is a small part of help doc. Please make sure to read the inbuilt help

Completions

snm binary has inbuilt completions supports. Please follow the instruction to generate completions according to your shell.

• For Zsh

snm completions zsh

• For Bash

snm completions bash

• For Fish

snm completions fish

• For PowerShell

snm completions pwsh

After generating the completions, please follow your shell instructions on how to load and use them.

Contributing

PRs are always welcome. You can help me by adding more tests 🤞.

First, You need to install rust toolchain via rustup.

• Setup

git clone https://github.com/numtostr/snm

cd ./snm

• Build

# For debug build
cargo build


# For release build
cargo build --release

• Running

# Same as running `snm --help`
cargo run -- --help

# Same as running `snm lsr 14`
cargo run -- lsr 14

Credits

This project would not be possible without these awesome projects.

• n for cli design
• fnm for giving me a base project and some code :)