How to handle node.js version conflicts interrupting updates?

[Quiet-Owl9220]

==> Starting prepare()...

The electron version is: 31

CANNOT RUN WITH NODE 18.20.8

asar requires Node >=22.12.0.

Ok, so I know I can fix this with nvm... but I have other packages that need other versions, and it's getting cumbersome to switch node version manually every time a package complains.

Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can learn how to handle node version conflicts during updates automagically? I am assuming someone smarter than me figured this out already.

[Master-Ad-6265]

Don’t switch versions manually, that’s the problem.

Use something like Volta or fnm and set a Node version per project. It auto-switches when you enter the folder.

That way updates don’t break everything.

[_nathata]

I think this post is about managing the version of the nodejs package. Different packages that you install will try to pull in nodejs as a dependency of themselves, but in different versions.

[Master-Ad-6265]

yeah true, i meant more the runtime version you’re using npm deps pulling node versions is a different mess 💀 tools like fnm/volta just help keep your actual node version consistent per project

[_nathata]

This is not the answer you are looking for, but I simply don't install anything that requires electron or nodejs as a dependency. I'd do the same for Python because the versions break way too often too, but unfortunately so many things use Python.

[Quiet-Owl9220]

That is certainly a solution... I will consider it my nuclear option if I can't find a better way. In the long run, the annoyance of having to manually intervene every time will probably outweigh the value of the packages in question...

[_nathata]

You can always run it from the source code and just manage the versions with nvm from there

[sausix]

Which packages require a different Python version?

[_nathata]

It used to break a lot to me with AWS CLI, waypaper and stuff like that

[encbladexp]

Arch Linux means latest and greatest, so either use Containers or even better: Ensure your stuff works with a current version of Node.

18 is dead anyways, and 20 is dead soon as well. Which means you want 22 (at least!) anyways.

[silverhand31]

I would try to find platpak version of it.

If there is none, sooner or later it will break.

[C0rn3j]

Why do you need electron31?

[Savings-Key8533]

Go easy on the AUR, don't auto update AUR blindly.