Add pins for Volta

[fredvd]

Add pins for people using Volta for automatic node/yarn/npm tooling pins & installation/shims.

[petschki]

what's volta?

[fredvd]

google for 'volta node' ;-)

https://volta.sh/

An IMHO much more convenient and less bloated alternative for nvm.

[jensens]

Volto, Volta, 🤪

[petschki]

My first thought: this is a typo 🫣

[mauritsvanrees]

Interesting!

Trying it out, starting on master:

$ node --version; yarn --version
v18.14.2
1.22.5
$ git checkout volta_pins 
Switched to branch 'volta_pins'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/volta_pins'.
$ node --version; yarn --version
v16.19.1
1.22.19

If you don't have those versions yet, Volta will automatically download them.

Nice! I am in favour.

Would be nice for mockup as well, where I always have to check if I need node 14, 16 or 18, and I don't think it is documented. Might be only a problem for the branch used in Plone 5.2 though.

[fredvd]

What I like about Volta is that it has the same functionality as nvm where it manages and downloads separate installs of node/npm/yarn versions. But it also has out of the box automatic activation in a proeject dir. With nvm you need to follow extra instructions to add stuff to your bashrc/profile and nvm is subjectively slower for me. I think it activates on 'cd'-ing in to a directory and uses shell commands.

The Volta shims are binaries and work almost instantly. And if you don't (want to) use Volta, the pins in the package.json are ignored.

[petschki]

I always make nvm use 18 ... would do it for volta too.

[petschki]

Suggested change

	"node": "16.19.1",
	"node": "18.17.0",