How to use nvm and deployer on the server?

[klaasnicolaas]

I like to use nvm for version control of npm and node.
However when I run a deploy, I constantly run into the problem that the "npm install" can't run.

[prod]  error  in npm.php on line 25:
[prod] run command -v 'npm' || which 'npm' || type -p 'npm'
[prod] exit code 1 (General error)

Side note: when I install nodejs and npm outside of nvm it seems to work fine.

My .zshrc file contains:

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

[antonmedv]

What’s the question? Looks like PATH problem. Note what Deployer uses bash by default.

Use absolutely path to you binary.

[klaasnicolaas]

The main question is what makes the difference 😄
But I'll set the absolute path a try again and put this also the bashrc as well. See if this makes a difference 🤔

[klaasnicolaas]

Hmm oke, this is what I did to fix it.

Adding this to .zshrc and .bashrc:

source $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion