I have no admin rights in my windows machine. Can I install NVM without admin rights? I tried using the environment variable path setup, but its not working in my case.
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I have the same need and couldn't find one, so I created one base on another simple nvm:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jchip/nvm
Requires powershell 4+ and permission to execute scripts.
(You're talking about https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows right?)
Whether you can install it without admin rights aside, the actual act of switching node versions with it requires them so you're going to have trouble.
Your best bet is to install different versions of node into different paths manually, and then configure your environment variables to point to the right one whenever you need to use it.
eg. prefix your cmd script with PATH=C:\node\v10;%PATH% to have any node or npm calls in that script use whatever node is sitting in v10
If you use Git Bash on Windows, you can add this to your bash.bashrc to switch node versions:
export PATH=/c/path/to/node/dir:$PATH
Then just restart your terminal to pick up the updated PATH.
It will prepend your path with your desired node version. It's the only way I've found to override the installed node version if you don't have admin rights on your machine.
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