Installing node with NVM
This is more of a recipe for myself, as I always have problems with npm. I’m usually stuborn and refuse to use a globally installed nodejs, and can’t be really bothered to properly install a nodejs tarball distribution, with setting up PATH and all. They’re usually throw-away and not portable between my machines.
So, a simple recipe to install nodejs on my own setup, an ArchLinux machine using fish as default shell.
First, install nvm using instructions from the NVM page: https://github.com/creationix/nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.1/install.sh | bash
This plugs NVM into .bashrc and makes it available for bash, but I use fish. In
bash I ran nvm install 6.10.0, which is the latest LTS release.
Next, in fish I run omf install nvm. This installs the nvm fish plugin
(assumes OMF is installed) and now it is possible to run npm commands (in a new
fish shell). For example, npm install http-server. Notice this is a local
install, it will create a node_modules folder in the current location and
will install the executable scripts as, for example,
node_modules/.bin/http-server.
Installing with -g (globally) will make the executable script available from
.nvm/versions/6.10.0/bin/http-server. NVM takes care of setting up proper
$PATH, so http-server will be available from any location.