6 alternatives to nvm

nvm-sh/nvm — Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions. (95,605 stars, MIT, infra, testing).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 8 licence-cleared components from nvm-sh/nvm itself.

The alternatives in detail

• asdf-vm/asdf
  Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
  score 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 25,610 stars · 24 components · search them
• pyenv/pyenv
  Simple Python version management
  score 2.4/10 · MIT permissive · 45,166 stars · 18 components · search them · alternatives
• withfig/autocomplete
  IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell
  score 6.4/10 · MIT permissive · 25,212 stars · 1,357 components · search them · alternatives
• jasongin/nvs
  Node Version Switcher - A cross-platform tool for switching between versions and forks of Node.js
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 2,962 stars · 21 components · search them
• zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
  score 1.0/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 23,045 stars · 9 components · search them · alternatives
• zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
  Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
  score 1.0/10 · MIT permissive · 36,143 stars · 11 components · search them

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