For testing, change nPm version using NVM?

[ORESoftware]

I was looking at this SO question/answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9755841/how-can-i-change-the-version-of-npm-using-nvm

Basically, for testing purposes, I am looking to test against different versions of Node.js and different versions of NPM.

I was naturally wondering if NVM could handle this?

One thing I was thinking of, was installing all your desired NPM versions in some folder in user $HOME, and then just symlinking those versions to the global space.

Something like this:

cd "$HOME/.npm_versions";
npm install npm@5
ln -s node_modules/npm "$(npm root -g)/npm"
ln -s node_modules/.bin/npm  "$(npm bin -g)/npm"

using npm link wouldn't work very well, because that re-runs installation and install hooks. But ln -s would work well, etc.

The above bash script is not exactly right but just trying to get the idea across.

[ORESoftware]

I am working on this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50976138/tool-to-change-npm-version-for-testing-by-symlinking-different-versions-to-glo

any help appreciated

[ljharb]

nvm does not currently manage npm at all; npm install -g npm@whatever is the way you'll need to handle it for now.

Duplicate of #964.

[ljharb]

@ORESoftware that's why nvm install-latest-npm exists.