This repo was forked from the official asdf-nodejs plugin repository to attempt to fix a few basic issues when trying to switch from nvm:
- Get versioning from official NodeJS sources rather than from Semver.io
- Allow use of defined "LTS" or "wildcard" versions
Node.js plugin for asdf version manager
The plugin properly validates OpenPGP signatures to check the authenticity of the package. Requires gpg
to be available during package installs
- GNU Core Utils -
brew install coreutils
- GnuPG -
brew install gpg
Install the plugin:
asdf plugin-add nodejs https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git
Import the Node.js release team's OpenPGP keys to main keyring:
bash ~/.asdf/plugins/nodejs/bin/import-release-team-keyring
If you installed asdf
with brew
adjust the path to the Node.js plugin:
bash /usr/local/opt/asdf/plugins/nodejs/bin/import-release-team-keyring
Check asdf readme for instructions on how to install & manage versions of Node.js.
When installing Node.js using asdf install
, you can pass custom configure options with the following env vars:
NODEJS_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS
- use only your configure optionsNODEJS_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS
- append these configure options along with ones that this plugin already usesNODEJS_CHECK_SIGNATURES
-strict
is default. Other values areno
andyes
. Checks downloads against OpenPGP signatures from the Node.js release team.NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR
- official mirrorhttps://nodejs.org/dist/
is default. If you are in China, you can set it tohttps://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/node/
.
asdf uses the .tool-versions
for auto-switching between software versions. To ease migration, you can have it read an existing .nvmrc
or .node-version
file to find out what version of Node.js should be used. To do this, add the following to $HOME/.asdfrc
:
legacy_version_file = yes
asdf-nodejs can automatically install a set of default set of npm package right after installing a Node.js version. To enable this feature, provide a $HOME/.default-npm-packages
file that lists one package per line, for example:
lodash
request
express
The gpg
commands above imports the OpenPGP public keys in your main OpenPGP keyring. However, you can also use a dedicated keyring in order to mitigate this issue.
To use a dedicated keyring, prepare the dedicated keyring and set it as the default keyring in the current shell:
export GNUPGHOME="${ASDF_DIR:-$HOME/.asdf}/keyrings/nodejs" && mkdir -p "$GNUPGHOME" && chmod 0700 "$GNUPGHOME"
# Imports Node.js release team's OpenPGP keys to the keyring
bash ~/.asdf/plugins/nodejs/bin/import-release-team-keyring
Again, if you used brew
to manage the asdf
installtion use the following bash commands:
export GNUPGHOME="bash /usr/local/opt/asdf/keyrings/nodejs" && mkdir -p "$GNUPGHOME" && chmod 0700 "$GNUPGHOME"
# Imports Node.js release team's OpenPGP keys to the keyring
bash /usr/local/opt/asdf/plugins/nodejs/bin/import-release-team-keyring
- Verifying Node.js Binaries.
- Only versions
>=0.10.0
are checked. Before that version, signatures for SHA2-256 hashes might not be provided (and can not be installed with thestrict
setting for that reason).
This behavior can be influenced by the NODEJS_CHECK_SIGNATURES
env var which supports the following options:
strict
- (default): Check signatures/checksums and don’t operate on package versions which did not provide signatures/checksums properly (< 0.10.0).no
- Do not check signatures/checksumsyes
- Check signatures/checksums if they should be present (enforced for >= 0.10.0)