Install NVM for Fish Shell

Install the nvm.fish plugin

For this you need to first have the fisher plugin manager installed: install fisher

fisher install jorgebucaran/nvm.fish

Using NVM

• Install the latest Node release and activate it.

    nvm install latest
  

• Install the latest LTS Node release

    nvm install lts
  

• Install a specific version of NodeJs

    nvm install v15.3.0
  

• Activate a node version you've already installed

    nvm use v14
  

• List the installed version of nodejs (includes your system-installed one, if present)

    nvm list
  

• List all node versions that can be installed

    nvm list-remote
  

• Uninstall a node version

    nvm uninstall v15.3.0
  

NVM version for different projects

A .nvmrc file makes it easy to lock a specific version of Node for different projects. For this, we need to create the .nvmrc file in the root directory of the project and specify the required node version in it. If the version currently being used is the version needed for the project then you can create the file using the command

node --version >.nvmrc

Then run the nvm install to install or nvm use to activate that version. These can be called from anywhere inside the project