N: Prerelease of v6 available

[shadowspawn]

Prerelease available via npm i n@next for v6. Release notes: https://github.com/tj/n/releases/tag/6.0.0-0

[emilyaviva]

I've been using this with no problems for a few days now. The breaking changes are good, and I have not yet run into any issues with usage. Thanks for the updates!! 🎉🚀

[shadowspawn]

Thanks @emilyaviva! Nice to hear someone tried the prerelease. :-)

[emilyaviva]

Yeah, I said, "heck with it, I'm gonna uninstall nvm and just go with this prerelease of n for a while and We'll See What Happens!" and so far everything's been hunky-dory. (For reference, I installed it by hand, not via npm, so I didn't test it via that channel.)

[DeeDeeG]

I've done some very basic tests (such as n lts, n stable, n 10, n 0.8, n 0.8.6 etc.) with and without N_USE_XZ. Also used a custom N_PREFIX. Those aren't very difficult tests to pass, but so far so good!

n ls does something totally different than before, which is mentioned in the release notes. Works as described there.

I think it's particularly cool you can get nightly node with n nightly.

I also think the explanatory text is helpful when just running n without arguments. (For context: running n with no arguments lets you select among already-downloaded (cached) versions of node, and "install" one of them as the active version of node.) New text tells you what this screen is about and how to use it, etc.

I didn't try anything with proxies or custom mirrors, which is probably the harder stuff.

[shadowspawn]

Thanks @DeeDeeG.

For your interest, this release is a _big_ back-port of improvements from nvh.
https://github.com/tj/n/issues/570#issuecomment-503882088

[shadowspawn]

n v6.0.0 has been released