alecho / asdf

Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

asdf

Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool, extendable via plugins - docs at asdf-vm.com

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis. It is like gvm, nvm, rbenv & pyenv (and more) all in one! Simply install your language's plugin!

Why use asdf?

• single CLI for multiple languages
• consistent commands to manage all your languages
• single global config keeping defaults in one place
• single .tool-versions config file per project
• support for existing config files .node-version, .nvmrc, .ruby-version for easy migration
• automatically switches runtime versions as you traverse your directories
• simple plugin system to add support for your language of choice
• shell completion available for common shells (Bash, Zsh, Fish)

Documentation

Please head over the documentation site for more information!

• Getting Started
• All Commands
• All Plugins
• Create a Plugin with our asdf-plugin-template
• asdf GitHub Actions

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md in the repo or the Contributing section on the docs site.

Community & Questions

• Github Issues: report a bug or raise a feature request to the asdf core team
• StackOverflow Tag: see existing Q&A for asdf. Some of the core team watch this tag in addition to our helpful community