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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mvkel ◴[18 Nov 24 19:03 UTC] No.42175730[source]▶
> time to run it after not touching it for 4 years

> Two hours of my life gone...

Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

And it would have run perfectly right away if the node version was specified, so a good learning, too

This feels like making a mountain out of a mole hill

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arp242 ◴[18 Nov 24 19:53 UTC] No.42176217[source]▶
Well, the "solution" ended up as "I gave up and just installed an old Node version and called it a day". So those 2 hours weren't even enough.

I've been using Jekyll/Ruby since 2014 for my website, with a few custom plugins I wrote myself. And I've never really needed to do anything like this. It "just works".

My Go and C programs are the same: "just works". I have some that are close to a decade old.

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1. jeberle ◴[18 Nov 24 20:17 UTC] No.42176445[source]▶
Not sure if I'd call out Jekyll as a paragon of stability. The last time I touched it, I made sure to write up detailed notes. In fairness, it's the only time I interact w/ Ruby.

https://jeberle.github.io/jekyll-setup

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2. arp242 ◴[18 Nov 24 20:45 UTC] No.42176792[source]▶
Those mostly seem the standard Ruby/Jekyll/GitHub Pages setup instructions?

I don't love how bundler works by the way; I think it should/could be a lot better in many different ways. Same for Jekyll. But once it works, it generally keeps working.

I don't think Jekyll (or Ruby) are a paragon of stability. I'm sure some stuff has broken over the years. It just seems to break a lot less than the JS/Node ecosystems.