Install Volta with Homebrew

It seems so easy: just brew install volta and you have a modern Node version manager ready to go!

Unfortunately, when I tried to install Node, I ran into this error:

  note: cannot find command node. Please ensure that /Users/jake/.volta/bin is available on your PATH.

I suppose I could have just added that directory to my PATH and been done with it, but it seemed odd that the installation wouldn’t have automatically set that up? I googled around and found this GitHub issue about Homebrew requiring you to run volta setup manually.

Turns out volta setup is a command that automatically modifies your shell config file to set the appropriate environment variables!

So, installing Volta with Homebrew actually requires two commands:

brew install volta
volta setup