Built in cross-platform nodejs version manager

[Milo123459]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Please describe the problem you are trying to solve.
No.
Describe the solution you'd like
Please describe the desired behavior.
node update command. Updates NodeJS whilst still keeping global modules installed. Has to be cross-platform.
Kinda like rustup, but, for NodeJS & cross platform
Describe alternatives you've considered
Please describe alternative solutions or features you have considered.
nvm-windows except it breaks and make you re-install global packages.

[theoludwig]

I'm definitely +1 for this, maybe something similar to deno upgrade (see: https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/installation#updating).

Currently you can achieve this with nvm with this sort of command: nvm install 'lts/*' --reinstall-packages-from=current
It installs the latest LTS version of Node.js but it would be better if Node.js could have this thing builtin.

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[theoludwig]

This feature might still be relevant.

[bnoordhuis]

This wouldn't be so difficult to implement for node itself, conceptually, at least. It's a single binary, like deno. The hard problem is updating npm.

[github-actions]

There has been no activity on this feature request for 5 months and it is unlikely to be implemented. It will be closed 6 months after the last non-automated comment.

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[Milo123459]

Still relevant

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There has been no activity on this feature request for 5 months and it is unlikely to be implemented. It will be closed 6 months after the last non-automated comment.

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[theoludwig]

Possible to disable Stale bot feature? 😅

Is an inactive issue no longer an issue?
I might be missing something, but is a stale bot really useful? What problem does it solve?
Are humans not capable to close issues when they are no longer relevant?
There are many repos on GitHub that use a stale bot but why, what does it bring?

(feel free to hide this comment as it is not relevant to this issue)

[bnoordhuis]

It gained zero traction in the 2 years it's been open so I think it's only proper to let it die off. I'll go ahead and close this.

Are humans not capable to close issues when they are no longer relevant?

That's what I'm doing but, in general, at a project of node's size, the answer is 'no'. Turn on email notifications for all issues for a while, I dare you. :-)

[bnoordhuis]

Also, this issue and #46409 are duplicates. That issue has a lot more discussion but didn't reach any real conclusion either.

(And I made the exact same point there that I made here. At least I'm consistent.)