Ability to add names to different node versions

[petrovicz]

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My Environment

• Windows 7 or below (not truly supported due to EOL - see wiki for details)

• Windows 8

• Windows 8.1

• Windows 10

• Windows 10 IoT Core

• Windows Server 2012

• Windows Server 2012 R2

• Windows Server 2016

• My Windows installation is non-English.

I'm using NVM4W version:

• 1.1.7
• 1.1.6
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.1
• Older
• OTHER (Please Specify)

I have already...

• read the README to be aware of npm gotchas & antivirus issues.
• reviewed the wiki to make sure my issue hasn't already been resolved.
• verified I'm using an account with administrative privileges.
• searched the issues (open and closed) to make sure this isn't a duplicate.
• made sure this isn't a question about how to use NVM for Windows, since gitter is used for questions and comments.

My issue is related to (check only those which apply):

• settings.txt
• proxy support (Have you tried version 1.1.0+?)
• 32 or 64 bit support (Have you tried version 1.1.3+?)
• Character escaping (Have you tried version 1.1.6+?)
• A standard shell environment (terminal/powershell)
• A non-standard shell environment (Cmder, Hyper, Cygwin, git)
• A feature request

Expected Behavior

It would be a great feature to let the users name their node versions.
It wouldn't require changing any existing behaviour, it would be just 2 extra commands maybe:

• One is for assigning a custom name to a version
• And another one for setting the version based on the custom name

So you don't have to remember which version are you using in which project.
I think it's a minimal effort change which brings a really good feature on the table.

[rbuckton]

I'd also like to see something like the nvm alias feature from nvm on Linux. I've "worked around" this by adding a directory symlink in the root for things like v{alias}.0.0.

[joesaraceno]

I too would like to see support for aliasing different versions similar to nvm on Linux. I would also like to see some default aliases come installed, that either reference LTS versions, default, latest, etc.

[johnnyoshika]

alias would be a nice addition.

[coreybutler]

Aliases are on the roadmap.

[Vyoam]

Would be nice to have this.

Some related links...

A PR which somehow was abandoned

#513

Duplicates...

#524
#543
#503
#558
https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/issues?q=alias

[coreybutler]

Again, aliases are on the roadmap for rt. See #565.