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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 3 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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1. em-bee ◴[18 Nov 24 20:59 UTC] No.42176958[source]▶
it took two hours just to get the project running as it was 4 years ago. wait how much time it will take to upgrade everything to new versions.

and dare i say this is the lucky case. i had problems reactivating some older project because some dependencies were not version locked and newer versions of those were incompatible with other versioned ones. then it took forever to figure out the right versions. and i think i even had situations where the old version wasn't even available anymore (perhaps because of a linux dependency that wasn't available anymore on my newer linux system)

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2. DecoySalamander ◴[19 Nov 24 11:45 UTC] No.42182397[source]▶
It took 2 hours to realize that project build for a specific version of node should be run with that version of node. And even that was self inflicted since author didn't vet dependencies and used something build as a C++ node addon instead of actual JS (my bet it was to have a slightly easier time writing CSS).
3. kwertyoowiyop ◴[19 Nov 24 16:07 UTC] No.42184998[source]▶
And even though it builds, there’s no guarantee it’ll work properly.