[Labs-l] Node.js updates

[Ricordisamoa]

Il 17/04/2015 18:43, Daniel Friesen ha scritto:
> On 2015-04-17 8:16 AM, Ricordisamoa wrote:
>> Il 16/04/2015 21:50, Yuvi Panda ha scritto:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 at 11:32 Ricordisamoa 
>>> <ricordisamoa at openmailbox.org <mailto:ricordisamoa at openmailbox.org>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     nvm: command not found :(
>>>
>>>
>>> It allows per-user node installs. See 
>>> https://github.com/creationix/nvm. Shouldn't require root, and you 
>>> can set it up just for your tool. Easy way to experiment :)
>>>
>>
>> By no means :(
>>
>> tools.jshint at tools-bastion-01:~$ nvm --version
>> 0.24.1
>> tools.jshint at tools-bastion-01:~$ node --version
>> v0.12.2
>>
>> And yet: https://tools.wmflabs.org/jshint/
> nvm's version has nothing to do with the node version, nvm installs 
> various node installs.
>
> Also it works like rvm if you've ever used it. nvm installs releases 
> in it's own folder and when you `nvm use ???` it changes your 
> environment so that nvm's node, etc... are on your PATH, etc... 
> instead of the system node.
>
> So it doesn't replace the system node and your env is not the env that 
> daemons execute in (if nvm did, your testing would have caused trouble 
> for other tools users by replacing node for their tools).
>
> To get the daemon to use a different node version something will need 
> to be changed in the spawning of the daemon to invoke some nvm 
> commands to change what node is used to run the tool.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]

It works by putting

"scripts": {
     "start": "~/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.2/bin/node server.js"
}

in ~/www/js/package.json. It looks a bit hackish though...
and nvm does not work in "start".
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