Introduction

If you switch between development projects which expect different environments, specifically different runtime versions or ambient libraries, or you are tired of all kinds of cumbersome environment configurations, vfox is the ideal choice for you.

vfox is a cross-platform, extensible version manager. It supports native Windows, and of course Unix-like! With it, you can quickly install and switch different environment.

It saves all tool version information in a file named .tool-versions, so you can share this information in your project to ensure that everyone on your team is using the same tool versions.

Traditional work requires multiple cli version managers, each with its own API, configuration files, and implementation (e.g., $PATH operations, shims, environment variables, etc.). vfox provides a single interactive way and configuration file to simplify the development workflow and can be extended to all tools and runtime environments through a simple plugin interface.

Why use vfox?

• cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• consistent commands to manage all your languages
• supports different versions for different projects, different shells, and globally.
• simple plugin system to add support for your runtime of choice
• automatically switches runtime versions as you traverse your project
• support for existing config files .node-version, .nvmrc, .sdkmanrc for easy migration
• shell completion available for common shells (Bash, ZSH, Powershell, Clink)
• Faster than asdf-vm, and provides simpler commands and true cross-platform unification. See Comparison to asdf。

Supported Shell

Shell	Support	Note
Powershell	✅
GitBash	✅	Issue
Bash	✅
ZSH	✅
Fish	✅
CMD	✅	Only Support Global Scope. Not Recommend!!!
Clink	✅
Cmder	✅

Contributors

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Thanks to the following contributors for their contributions.🎉🎉🙏🙏

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