How to pin a version without touch package.json

[keidarcy]

My team use different tool to manage node version.
I like volta!
How to use a specific version without add "volta": {} to package.json?
Currently, I pin and delete volta part from package.json.

and something like below live in root package.json

  "engines": {
    "node": "12 || 14"
  }

[charlespierce]

Hi @keidarcy! Unfortunately, we don't currently support any other method for pinning the Node version. There's an open issue (that needs some design work to be implementable) tracking the idea of using a separate file to pin the versions: #282

Note that deleting the volta entry from package.json will make Volta use the global defaults (as the package doesn't have any Volta configuration). The only thing that volta pin does (other than cache the requested version locally) is to write that entry, so removing it is effectively undoing volta pin.

As for engines, we actually looked early on at using it, and decided against it, for reasons outlined in this comment: #742 (comment)