Add Volta tool to implement node version + toolchain manager

[lubska]

Feature idea

Volta is a JavaScript node version + toolchain manager. It lets you pin exact versions of Node.js, npm, yarn and pnpm per project, so everyone on the team uses the same versions automatically.
Volta installs tools once, caches them and switches versions instantly based on the project configuration, without manual setup. It works across platforms and integrates transparently into your shell and CI environment.

Advantages

• You don't need to manually run nvm use
• the correct version is picked up automatically when you enter a project
• it works consistently in the shell, IDE and CI environment
• it pins tool versions in package.json

Additional context

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[hohwille]

@lubska thank you very much for creating this feature request. 👍
This looks very interesting and node users and JS developers might want to use volata and IDEasy alongside so it fully makes sense to me to support volate in IDEasy and integrate it.
Since we want to support our sandbox-principle, it would be good to know upfront how volta might or might not isolate projects with different demands.
IMHO volta is a global installation on my computer and when two projects share the same node version they can easily get into conflicts that volta cannot resolve (due to design flaws in node.js that creates a big ball of mud instead of isolating different libs and tools).

Related links for understanding:

• Design for tools like node and python that hack their own installation #352
• https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/blob/main/documentation/tool-vendor-plea.adoc#keep-installations-pristine

[lubska]

@hohwille thank You for explanation! As we see with a help of volta pin command we can "pin" the version that we need.
But we have to keep very important rule: do not intall npm globally using npm install -g npm. npm updates itself in the globally installed Node.js environment. Volta is not awere of this change. As a result, the npm version becomes different from the one expected by Volta. If we need a "global" npm version:
volta install node@20
volta install npm@10

[lubska]

[lubska]

Volta is no longer actively maintained and is not a viable long-term solution. It is proposed to replace implementation with mise, which is actively supported and provides the required runtime/version management features. The ticket is closed in favor of the new ticket with mise implementation:
#1701 Implement Mise-en-place