Awesome
asdf
Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool, extendable via plugins - docs at asdf-vm.com
asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis. It is like gvm
, nvm
, rbenv
& pyenv
(and more) all in one! Simply install your language's plugin!
Why use asdf?
- single CLI for multiple languages
- consistent commands to manage all your languages
- single global config keeping defaults in one place
- single
.tool-versions
config file per project - support for existing config files
.node-version
,.nvmrc
,.ruby-version
for easy migration - automatically switches runtime versions as you traverse your directories
- simple plugin system to add support for your language of choice
- shell completion available for common shells (Bash, Zsh, Fish, Elvish)
Documentation
Please head over to the documentation site for more information!
- Getting Started
- All Commands
- All Plugins
- Create a Plugin with our asdf-plugin-template
- asdf GitHub Actions
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md in the repo or the Contributing section on the docs site.
Community & Questions
- FAQ
- GitHub Issues: report a bug or raise a feature request to the
asdf
core team - StackOverflow Tag: see existing Q&A for
asdf
. Some of the core team watch this tag in addition to our helpful community
Ballad of asdf
Once upon a time there was a programming language<br/> There were many versions of it<br/> So people wrote a version manager for it<br/> To switch between versions for projects<br/> Different, old, new.
Then there came more programming languages<br/> So there came more version managers<br/> And many commands for them
I installed a lot of them<br/> I learnt a lot of commands
Then I said, just one more version manager<br/> Which I will write instead
So, there came another version manager<br/> asdf version manager - https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
A version manager so extendable<br/> for which anyone can create a plugin<br/> To support their favourite language<br/> No more installing more version managers<br/> Or learning more commands
<figure> <blockquote> This was the mail I wrote to a few friends to tell them about the project. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/roshanvid" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">@roshanvid</a> for suggesting that this go into the readme </blockquote> <figcaption> <a href="https://github.com/HashNuke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">@HashNuke</a> </figcaption> </figure>