cicerops / supernode

A small helper program for providing Node.js environments to development sandboxes and CI systems.

supernode

About

A small helper program for providing Node.js environments to development sandboxes and CI systems.

Synopsis

# Setup modern Node.js environment.
source /dev/stdin <<<"$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cicerops/supernode/main/supernode)"

Usage

To provision and activate a corresponding Node.js environment and provide it to your programs, run those commands upfront before invoking any other project tasks like Makefile targets.

The programs node, npm, npx and yarn will be transparently available to subsequent commands within the shell environment.

# Define a software environment typical for the active Node.js 16 LTS release.
export NODEJS_VERSION=16.14.2
export NPM_VERSION=8.5.5
export YARN_VERSION=2.4.3

# Define a software environment typical for the previous Node.js 14 LTS release.
export NODEJS_VERSION=14.19.1
export NPM_VERSION=6.14.15
export YARN_VERSION=1.22.18

# Setup Node.js environment defined by specific software versions.
source /dev/stdin <<<"$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cicerops/supernode/main/supernode)"

Example output

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supernode setup
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Provisioning Node.js 14.19.1, NPM 6.14.15 and Yarn 1.22.18.

Lalala....

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supernode status
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Node.js: v14.19.1
NPM:     6.14.15
Yarn:    1.22.18

Details

The whole machinery will be installed into a folder called .venv within the working directory. The good thing is that this environment is completely isolated from the operating system's Node.js installation.

The tools behind this installation flavor are Python virtual environments and Node.js virtual environments.