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Replies for: Thanks for the response. I've added NVM as an option in my Node gist and also added how to get the LTS version which is 10 or 12 depending on distr...

Also you can lock an apt package version. Today I learned!

I never really noticed that load time for NVM. The half a second it would take on my machine didn't bother me but I decided to look into it.

When you source nvm, you can add --no-use to it.
no-use documentation
This will then prevent nvm from sourcing node until you run nvm use.
This should pretty much source the nvm script instantly now.

Michael Currin • Sep 1 '20

Thanks for sharing.

Works for me.

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" --no-use
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"