Opened 6 weeks ago
#9253 new defect (bug)
Node 22 breaks
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| Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 14.2.1 |
| Component: | Build/Test Tools | Keywords: | has-patch |
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Description
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
Patch to edit Node20+ references