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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dmuth ◴[19 Nov 24 14:48 UTC] No.42183995[source]▶
This is one reason why whenever I build a new project, I build it inside of a Docker container.

That way, the project has just the dependencies it needs, and I know I can rebuild it at some point in the future and will be unlikely to run into problems when I do.

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1. brokencube ◴[19 Nov 24 15:31 UTC] No.42184562[source]▶
My first step now when trying to resurrect old projects is to create a Docker container for it - that way I can install any old versions of anything (like node or PHP) I need without having to worry about it polluting anything else on the system.