vfox

VersionFox

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Introduction

vfox is a cross-platform tool for managing SDK versions, extendable via plugins. It allows you to quickly install and switch between different versions of SDKs using the command line.

Why use VersionFox?

• cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• single CLI for multiple languages
• consistent commands to manage all your languages
• support Global、Project、Session scopes when switching versions
• simple plugin system to add support for your language of choice
• automatically switches runtime versions as you traverse your project
• shell completion available for common shells (Bash, Zsh, Powershell)
• it's faster than asdf-vm, and offers more simple commands and genuine cross-platform unification. see Comparison with asdf

Demo

Quickstart

For detailed installation instructions, see Quick Start

1. Choose an installation that works for you.

2. ⚠️ Hook vfox into your shell (pick one that works for your shell) ⚠️

echo 'eval "$(vfox activate bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(vfox activate zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'vfox activate fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

# For PowerShell, add the following line to your $PROFILE:
Invoke-Expression "$(vfox activate pwsh)"

3. Add an SDK plugin

$ vfox add nodejs/nodejs

4. Install a runtime

$ vfox install nodejs@21.5.0

5. Switch runtime

$ vfox use nodejs@21.5.0
$ node -v
21.5.0

Full Documentation

See vfox.lhan.me for full documentation.

Supported Plugins

If you have installed vfox, you can view all available plugins with the vfox available command.

For more details, see the version-fox-plugins

Contributors

Thanks to following people who contributed to this project. 🎉🎉🙏🙏

Contributing

Bug reports, contributions and forks are welcome. All bugs or other forms of discussion happen on issues.

See more at CONTRIBUTING.md.

Plugin Contributions, please go to version-fox-plugins.

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COPYRIGHT

Apache 2.0 license - Copyright (C) 2024 Han Li and contributors