ohmyzsh/plugins/nvm

nvm plugin

This plugin adds autocompletions for nvm — a Node.js version manager. It also automatically sources nvm, so you don't need to do it manually in your .zshrc.

To use it, add nvm to the plugins array of your zshrc file:

plugins=(... nvm)

Settings

If you installed nvm in a directory other than $HOME/.nvm, set and export NVM_DIR to be the directory where you installed nvm.

These settings should go in your zshrc file, before Oh My Zsh is sourced:

• NVM_HOMEBREW: if you installed nvm via Homebrew, in a directory other than /usr/local/opt/nvm, you can set NVM_HOMEBREW to be the directory where you installed it. For example, on Apple Silicon-based Macs, Homebrew is installed in /opt/homebrew. To get the directory where nvm has been installed, regardless of chip architecture, use NVM_HOMEBREW=$(brew --prefix nvm).

Customization

Lazy startup

This option will help you to defer nvm's load until you use it to speed-up your zsh startup. This will source nvm script only when using it, and will create a function for node, npm, npx, pnpm, yarn, and the command(s) specified by lazy-cmd option, so when you call either of them, nvm will be loaded and run with default version. To enable it, you can add this snippet to your zshrc, before Oh My Zsh is sourced:

zstyle ':omz:plugins:nvm' lazy yes

Then, to define extra commands that will also trigger nvm load, you can use a similar syntax, adding as many as you want:

zstyle ':omz:plugins:nvm' lazy-cmd eslint prettier typescript ...

.nvmrc autoload

Note: this option cannot be used at the same time as lazy. autoload will override it and load nvm at startup.

If set, the plugin will automatically load a node version when if finds a .nvmrc file in the current working directory indicating which node version to load. This can be done, similar as previous options, adding:

zstyle ':omz:plugins:nvm' autoload yes
zstyle ':omz:plugins:nvm' silent-autoload yes # optionally remove the output generated by NVM when autoloading

Note: this will not remove regular nvm output