I was finding terminal sessions took a long time to start up on my machine, and eventually discovered that nvm was taking the majority of the start-up time.
In order to mitigate this, I came up with a way to only load nvm when it was really needed, but still keep access to my default node installation.
I've previously written about absolute and relative paths in web development, and this follow-up post is here to show the method I've been using to get around the problem.
The secret sauce is the old HTML <base> tag. Simply output this in the <head> section of your template, with the href attribute set to the full URL of your site's root, then you can use a simple helper function like the one below to build full URLs in your javascript!