 I was cleaning up my code folder and stumbled upon a website project I didn't touch since December 2020, so, two years. Nothing extraordinary, just a #Pug + #Sass + #Bootstrap portfolio website, built with #Gulp. Well, after trying for about 30 minutes, I still couldn't bring it to build properly. It was error upon error. 🙄 This is why I dislike the #JavaScript ecosystem so much. Even in #Python, it wouldn't be that critical, let alone something like #C or #Java. 4 comments
And, like, there are fixes and such, but they don't work. I did pin the Node version, and I did pin all the dependencies, and it still doesn't work. Node 12 is deprecated. Let's use nodenv. Oh, Node 12 can't be built without Python 2. Python 2 is deprecated. Let's use pyenv. Okay, we got everything. Let's yarn install. node-sass can't be built, probably because of my ARM MacBook. Fun thing is, the project doesn't even use node-sass :blobcatnotlikethis: Such a mess. @kytta I feel that pain, older projects that depend on node sass are a pain tu run locally on recent Macos versions due python/node incompatibility. What I been doing is creating a docker file that works to build the project in case I need to run it a few years later |
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Yesterday, it was Gulp, today, it is Vite, tomorrow, it is esbuild or Rome or whatever else gets invented. And after two years, all of that is dead and unrecoverable.