This ansible role is used to install NVM, Node Version Manager, locally within a linux box.

This role requires git, curl, build-essential, libssl-dev. Requirements are installed by this role.

Required Variables

• nvm_user Remote user. This value defaults to 'vagrant'.

Optional Variables

• nvm_version: "v0.33.0" NVM version to install on remote machine, it defaults to v0.33.0. You must specify a distinct NVM version, do NOT use wild cards (i.e. v0.24.x).
• nvm_node_version: "6.9.5" Node version to install on the remote machine, it defaults to 6.9.5. You must specify a distinct node version, do NOT use wild cards (i.e. 6.9.x).
• nvm_npm_pkgs: [] A list of global npm packages to be installed on remote machine. It defaults to an empty list. Packages should be yaml dictionary with keys pkg, representing the package name, and version, representing the package version, as shown below.

nvm_npm_pkgs:
  - pkg: bower
    version: 1.4.x

No dependencies.

- hosts: server
  roles:
  - role: nvm
      nvm_user: vagrant
      nvm_version: "v0.33.0"
      nvm_node_version: "6.9.5"
      nvm_npm_pkgs:
        - pkg: bower
          version: 1.4.x
        - pkg: brunch
          version: "*"
        - pkg: yarn
          version: "*"

This role will also run nvm alais default on the specified nvm_node_version to set a default Node version to be used in any new shell.

This project comes with a Vagrantfile, this is a fast and easy way to test changes to the role, fire it up with vagrant up.

See vagrant docs for getting setup with vagrant.

Once your VM is up, you can provision the VM using vagrant provision or vagrant up --provision.

If you want to toy with the test play, see tests/playbook.yml, and change the variables in tests/vars.yml.

If you are contributing, please first test your changes within the vagrant environment, (using at least one of the targeted distribution(s) ubuntu/xenial64), and if possible, ensure your change is covered in the tests found in .travis.yml if applicable.

If you wish to change the Vagrant OS distribution, please update config.vm.box, this can be found in the accompanying Vagrantfile.

Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Mauro Oviedo (aka moviedo)