Corepack is skipped with Node 16.9.0. Unable to access it.

[lockHrt]

Issue:

nodejs/corepack#52

Node 16.9.0 includes a module called corepack. Corepack allows you to use yarn, pnpm without having to install them (just like how you can use npm right now). Terminal is unable to find the corepack. It seems that corepack isn't installed with the node 16.9.0 if we install node via nvm-windows

How To Reproduce:

1. nvm install 16.9.0
2. nvm use 16.9.0
3. corepack enable
   this one gives error saying it can't recognize/find corepack

Node docs on Corepack

[coreybutler]

This was just released as an experimental feature and Node doesn't ship with it for Windows yet. The only bundled distributions released are available at https://github.com/nodejs/corepack/actions/runs/276463953. Until there is a stable download source for Node with corepack on Windows, there isn't much NVM4W can do.

Windows users can apparently install corepack manually though. See https://github.com/nodejs/corepack#manual-installs. With a fresh install of Node 16.9.0, just run npm i -g corepack.

I'll leave this open as an enhancement request, but until corepack is bundled with the Node windows binaries, there isn't anything that can be done.

[merceyz]

Node doesn't ship with it for Windows yet. The only bundled distributions released are available at https://github.com/nodejs/corepack/actions/runs/276463953. Until there is a stable download source for Node with corepack on Windows [...]

Corepack is installed by default in the Windows installer and is present in the zip distributions starting from 16.9.0 so not sure what you mean by that.
https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.9.0/node-v16.9.0-win-x86.zip
https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.9.0/node-v16.9.0-win-x64.zip

[coreybutler]

Thanks @merceyz - I was unaware it was shipping as part of the distribution. We can work with that.

[coreybutler]

Resolved in https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/releases/tag/1.1.8

[perqin]

According to Corepack's documentation:

Corepack is distributed by default with Node.js 14.19.0 and 16.9.0, but is opt-in for the time being. Run corepack enable to install the required shims.

And corepack binary file is included in 14.19.0 distributed zip, so this issue also occurs when installing node 14.19.0.