Hi,

What is nvm?

The Node Version Manager or nvm for short is a tool for managing different versions of nodejs on your machine. This most useful when you have to work on different projects and each project need different versions of nodejs. So, in such cases Node Version Manager (nvm) can be used effictively.

The Node Version Manager is used to quickly switch between different versions of node and npm quickly and this makes the process much easier. The Node Version Manager also makes it much easier for the programmers to upgrade node version. If you are working on the node js project then it is advisable to use Node Version Manager and install it directly on your machine. After installing the nvm you can take full advantage of its features.

The official website of nvm is http://nvm.sh. Here you will find lastest build and information about the nvm. The official version is only available for Linux and MacOS.

For windows you can find it at https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows. You can download the windows version and install on your windows computer if you are using Windows for your application development.

On ubuntu you can install with following command:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh

After download run following command:

bash install_nvm.sh

After installation you can activate it the by running following source command:

source ~/.profile

After reboot of OS, nvm will be available in the path and you can use it from terminal.

Following is the command to check the version of nvm:

nvm --version

You can check the available nodejs versions by running following command:

nvm ls-remote

v0.1.14
v0.1.15
v0.1.16
v0.1.17
v0.1.18
v0.1.19
v0.1.20
v0.1.21
v0.1.22
v0.1.23
v0.1.24
v0.1.25
v0.1.26

Hope above will help you in instaling nvm on your Ubuntu 18.04 system.

Thanks