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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: 0.477s | 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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thiht ◴[20 Nov 24 15:06 UTC] No.42194518[source]▶
> Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

It's really not. I'm in the same situation with a Go + React project I haven't really touched in 3 years. The Go part is just `go build`, it still works after 3 years and I have a build in a fraction of a second. The React project doesn't build anymore at all. I used Parcel 2 at the time, and it turns out it's incompatible with a Mac M1 for some reason, and it's hard to update in my case. I also used Antdesign and some components (icons specifically) apparently disappeared. It should not be so hard.

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1. lelandfe ◴[20 Nov 24 15:31 UTC] No.42194748[source]▶
I feel like you've just proffered a second success story. It can get worse. I've worked on software whose "dusting off" involved swapping the entire dep tree because the remote that Bower was using no longer existed, or manually compiling pinned versions of dependencies that Homebrew no longer offered. Sometimes it took days to get everything working.