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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: 0.201s | 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. signal11 ◴[22 Nov 24 06:16 UTC] No.42211558[source]▶
An anecdote — I recently upgraded an old NodeJS project written using v14 to 22. It used an old version of Svelte for the UI. It wasn’t too bad, took about 90 minutes to upgrade a bunch of Svelte 3 components to Svelte 5, with some assistance from Copilot.

This was with zero awareness of Svelte 5 (I only knew it was released — I wanted to upgrade because Node 14 is EOL now and I’d noticed some npm audit warnings.) So I feel I also learned something in the process.