Make https://nvm.sh/ return the install script

[NotLeonid]

I was wondering is it is possible to make the default webpage on nvm.sh/ return the install script itself?
Every time I'm working on a fresh Linux installation, I always just want to be able to type something like
curl -sSL https://nvm.sh/ | bash
or
curl -o- https://nvm.sh/install | bash,
because otherwise I just type nvm.sh in my browser and then grab the link from the GitHub page.
Having it directly and easily accessible from such URL would be far more convenient.

I am also pretty sure that there is a way for webservers to detect requests coming from user agents like curl or wget, so maybe only returning the install script when these user agents are detected be a better way to implement it, in case if there are any inconveniences.

Edit: install.nvm.sh? A redirect to the GitHub link?

[ljharb]

Doing that for the root domain would be a horrifically terrible idea, even with user-agent detection.

It might be reasonable to add a subdomain, but the version number must ALWAYS (forever) be in the install command, since blindly installing "latest" is a long-known antipattern, and so I'm not sure what it would add. You shouldn't want to be programmatically installing "the latest version of nvm"; you should always be installing a specific version number.

[NotLeonid]

So be it, then! 😁
Why not also have to specify the version for the subdomain URL?
For example:

curl -o- https://install.nvm.sh/v0.40.4 | bash

I may not however understand why is installing the latest version programmatically is known to be an "anti pattern" though. For example, using nvm install --lts installs the latest version.

[ljharb]

Same reason putting “*” or “latest” in package.json is bad - it means you don’t know what you’re getting.