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@stackodev are you on Windows, Mac or Linux?
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@stackodev actually ignore my previous question - you might want to look into Volta: https://volta.sh/
I've just started looking into it, and it basically let's you specify the Node version that each project uses in your package.json, and then you can just run `volta install` to get the correct version for each project -
@Ezard Thanks. I’ll look into it. Still trying to figure out whether new approaches will be allowed at this job.
Finally got fed up with nvm and npm being messed up somehow and decided to reinstall it. It’s finally finished after 84 years and more text than the Bible and the complete works of William Shakespeare has been scrolling in my terminal as it installs.
Aaaand it’s still just as broken as before. I’m now considering re-imaging the entire machine and starting over again.
I know all the “right answers” as to why and how we use Node but I sometimes wonder how much of that is sunk-cost groupthink as well as “we’ve always done it this way”.
Should _setting up_ to write code and release software take longer than it does to write code and release software?
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