Node 22 breaks

[SirLouen]

Following this:
​https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9047
Suggesting that Node 20+ is the new recommended version, which is wrong.

I tried to run the dev environment with the latest version of Node provided on the site, and I could not execute

npm install

Only to discover that was a node 22 version issue

The problem comes from an incompatibility with node-sass package.

So, currently the only working LTS version is 20 and the version 21 being the max version node version working.

Given that at least for now, node-sass seems to be a requirement in package.json, the simplest soultion I provide is updating both in the docs (/docs/contributor/code/README.md, instead of "latest version", suggest sticking to version 20) and in the package.json file.

More info here about the Node 22 issue here:
​https://github.com/sass/node-sass/issues/3415

[SirLouen]

Patch to edit Node20+ references

[espellcaste]

My guess you have a more recent version of Python installed. But you are sort of right. I do can use it if I have a old version of Python (3.0).

But I'll adjust this in the next version.

[espellcaste]

Duplicate of #9321