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List of version managers for various programming languages

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Dylan Ballandras
Dylan Ballandras

Do you often want to use a local installation of a language or tool without a Docker setup as I do? But do you encounter to need to switch between versions because you have a lot of projects and then you might think of Docker to solve your issue?

I'm really glad we have the same needs as developpers and that I can help you find tooling to ease your daily routine and project context switching.

Node Version managers

  • https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm I mainly use this one for NPM, Yarn and Node
  • https://github.com/volta-cli/volta

PHP Version managers

  • https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew

Go version managers

  • https://github.com/moovweb/gvm

Ruby version managers

  • https://github.com/rvm/rvm

One Version Manager to rule them all, One VM to find them, One VM to bring them all, and in the Shell bind them.

There's also the all-in-one version manager known as ASDF. I've used it with WSL and it was a really nice!

Versions managers are great to help in simple projects but Docker might better fit your needs if you have services like databases, reverse proxy or anything beyond a compiler.

In the end, it will mainly be a useful note to me because lot of people might be familiar with those tools but I hope I can help newcomers with this blog post. Have fun coding!