A Must-Have Tool For Developers.

ASDF => Is A CLI - Command Line Interface tool That allow us to manage multiple runtime versions of a language packages and plugins.

Once you install asdf and set it up with the shell configuration, some plugins are installed to help us manage multiples tools.

A cool Feature of asdf is that all the tool version definitions are managed and contained in one single file named .tool-versions. That you can add to a project file directory and check it in to the project Git Repository to ensure everyone is using the same tool version.

Using Existing Tool Version Files - "Copied from The Docs"

asdf supports the migration from existing version files from other version managers. Eg: .ruby-version for the case of rbenv. This is supported on a per-plugin basis.

asdf-nodejs supports this via both .nvmrc and .node-version files. To enable this, add the following to your asdf configuration file $HOME/.asdfrc:

legacy_version_file = yes

See the configuration reference page for more config options.

This mean that if we have old projects we are currently working on we do not need to add the .tool-versions file to our project, the tool will automatically read and detect current versions files from the project.

Link to All The Commands

Make sure To ⭐️ the Project on GitHub and contribute if you can.

Ballad of asdf => Ballad is a Poem of asdf Copied from the readme on GitHub.

Once upon a time there was a programming language

There were many versions of it

So people wrote a version manager for it

To switch between versions for projects

Different, old, new.

Then there came more programming languages

So there came more version managers

And many commands for them

I installed a lot of them

I learnt a lot of commands

Then I said, just one more version manager

Which I will write instead

So, there came another version manager

asdf version manager - https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

A version manager so extendable

for which anyone can create a plugin

To support their favourite language

No more installing more version managers

Or learning more commands

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