NVM
Same commands you already know.
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NVM commands.
Native speed.
Same commands, same ~/.nvm, China mirrors built in.
macOS · Linux
curl -fsSL https://znvm.dev/install.sh | bash
Windows · x64 / ARM64
Windows setupPowerShell 7, cmd, Git Bash. No admin rights; switches only this terminal. SHA256SUMS
Guide
Open it and pick.
nvm
Features
npmmirror
Node downloads, already mirrored.
Guide
A menu on macOS and Linux.
Registries
One command changes the registry.
Mirrors
Electron and Playwright, mirrored.
Compare
Install, use, and list Node
- NVM
- yes
- NRM
- no
- ZNVM
- yes
Drop-in NVM_DIR=~/.nvm and NVM commands
- NVM
- yes
- NRM
- no
- ZNVM
- yes
Default Node download host
- NVM
- nodejs.org
- NRM
- no
- ZNVM
- npmmirror
Interactive guide
- NVM
- no
- NRM
- no
- ZNVM
- yes
Several @scope registries
- NVM
- no
- NRM
- no
- ZNVM
- yes
Writes npm, yarn, pnpm, and bun
- NVM
- no
- NRM
- npm
- ZNVM
- yes
Electron and other binary mirrors
- NVM
- no
- NRM
- optional in NRM
- ZNVM
- yes, nvm mirror
Speed
3.31 ms
Warm shell startup, 2026-10-22
Shell startup
NVM
- Warm median
- 113 ms
- Warm p95
- 115 ms
- Cold median
- 121 ms
- Cold p95
- 128 ms
fnm
- Warm median
- 1.58 ms
- Warm p95
- 1.76 ms
- Cold median
- 4.70 ms
- Cold p95
- 6.67 ms
ZNVM
- Warm median
- 3.31 ms
- Warm p95
- 3.64 ms
- Cold median
- 5.01 ms
- Cold p95
- 9.28 ms
In-shell commands
NVM
- list warm
- 559 ms
- list cold
- 557 ms
- use warm
- 158 ms
- use cold
- 221 ms
- .nvmrc warm
- 166 ms
- .nvmrc cold
- 222 ms
fnm
- list warm
- 1.26 ms
- list cold
- 6.10 ms
- use warm
- 1.35 ms
- use cold
- 6.19 ms
- .nvmrc warm
- 1.41 ms
- .nvmrc cold
- 5.20 ms
ZNVM
- list warm
- 0.61 ms
- list cold
- 3.18 ms
- use warm
- 0.84 ms
- use cold
- 3.44 ms
- .nvmrc warm
- 0.86 ms
- .nvmrc cold
- 3.06 ms