Hey all,
With Node 14 going out of security suppo...
# pact-jsy
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
04/14/2023, 1:16 PM
Hey all,
With Node 14 going out of security support in 2 weeks, what are peoples current projects like in terms of updating?
https://endoflife.date/nodejs
• Is anyone still running node 12.x / 14.x apps or earlier
◦ How important are your libraries you depend on, supporting those?
• As what point do maintainers stop supporting the runtimes? (maybe for your own projects, but this will be a wider question proposed to our javascript pact community)
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Timothy Jones
04/14/2023, 11:57 PMMost libraries are staying in step with the node release cycle, I thought there was a note about this somewhere
Timothy Jones
04/16/2023, 3:15 PMy
Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
04/18/2023, 11:42 PM
thanks buddy, that was a good read.
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
04/18/2023, 11:46 PM
so come eol of node 14 lts in a couple of weeks, we switch off node 14 ci, set the engines flag and do a major version bump, and build a nice compat matrix matching node release lts versions and show tests running against them is my tl;dr from that
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Timothy Jones
04/18/2023, 11:48 PMYep
Timothy Jones
04/18/2023, 11:48 PMThat’s what I used to do when I maintained it
Timothy Jones
04/18/2023, 11:48 PMexcept for the compat matrix. I just put it in the changelog.
Timothy Jones
04/18/2023, 11:51 PMI think doing that kind of release means that you must have good changelogs - as in, each changed item is understandable to a user with no context of the internals, no empty release note releases, clear migration guidelines for breaking changes, etc.
Timothy Jones
04/18/2023, 11:52 PMOne really nice feature of release please is that you can change the release notes for a PR after it has been merged, so you don’t have to be so draconian about commit messages in first-time contributor PRs. However, one downside is that it requires squash merges if you want to totally override the commit messages on the branch.
Timothy Jones
04/18/2023, 11:54 PMAlso, I don’t run CI on node’s bleeding edge releases (the odd version numbers). This is because I found they produced too many broken builds.
Timothy Jones
04/19/2023, 2:23 PM@Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io) - I reckon you’d like JSii’s approach to this problem:
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Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io)
04/19/2023, 2:56 PM
Yeah the pact ruby standalone with my changes in won't execute under node 19 on windows for me, for nodeymcreasons.
I personally LOVE that messaging though, will 110% take a look
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Timothy Jones
04/19/2023, 2:57 PMnodeymcreasons😂
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