This site will run on the Node.js version specified in .node-version
.
When updating to a new Node.js version, consider the following files:
- The
engines.node
entry inpackage.json
- The
.node-version
file used by nodenv, a tool for managing multiple Node.js versions on your machine. - The
.github/*.workflow
Actions files - The
Dockerfile
that can be used for deployments - The
contributing/development.md
guide - The
contributing/node-versions.md
file
nodenv is a tool for managing multiple Node.js versions on your local machine. It is not required to run this app, but you may already have it installed if you've worked on other projects that use Node.js.
If you're using macOS, run this command to get the latest:
brew upgrade nodenv node-build
If you see a warning like this one, run the suggested command:
# You should change the ownership of these directories to your user.
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/sbin
If you're using another operating system, or did not use Homebrew to install nodenv, see these upgrade instructions.
To install Node.js and make it your default version, run this command:
VERSION=`cat .node-version`
nodenv install $VERSION && nodenv global $VERSION
You may sometimes see a warning when running npm scripts with nodenv:
npm WARN lifecycle The node binary used for scripts is [...] but npm is using [...]
This is due to nodenv's overriding behavior. To silence this harmless warning, the nodenv docs recommend running the following command from any directory:
npm config set scripts-prepend-node-path auto