Twill CMS•17mo ago

Minimum Node version?

I'm updating our site to the latest version of Twill 2—2.13.0. I have all the composer packages and their dependencies updated and installed and I ran php artisan twill:update successfully. But I'm running into a bug when I run php artisan twill:build:

 ERROR  Error loading /home/vagrant/website/vendor/area17/twill/vue.config.js:
 ERROR  SyntaxError: Unexpected token ?
/home/vagrant/website/vendor/area17/twill/vue.config.js:169

 ERROR  Error loading /home/vagrant/website/vendor/area17/twill/vue.config.js:
 ERROR  SyntaxError: Unexpected token ?
/home/vagrant/website/vendor/area17/twill/vue.config.js:169

The culprit is this line here that uses the nullish coalescing operator (??):

const host = process.env.APP_URL.split('//')[1] ?? process.env.APP_URL;

const host = process.env.APP_URL.split('//')[1] ?? process.env.APP_URL;

I'm running node v8.17.0 and npm v6.13.4, as the Twill documentation states that npm 6.13 is the recommended version: https://node.green/#ES2020-features--nullish-coalescing-operator-----. But according to node.green the nullish coalescing operator was introduced in node v14: https://node.green/#ES2020-features--nullish-coalescing-operator----- So a few questions: * Is the minimum version of npm for Twill2 different from what's stated in the docs? * Is there a minimum version of node that Twill2 requires? * Barring all that, could I submit a PR to refactor vue.config.js to not use the ?? operator? Thanks!

2 Replies

ifox•17mo ago

Thanks for flagging this @nikhiltri_! it appears this change didn't consider the recommended version in the docs. However, at this point, we can recommend a more recent version. The CI workflow that used to build the default Twill compiled assets was actually using Node 14: https://github.com/area17/twill/blob/2.12.4/.github/workflows/build.yml#L20 With that said, Twill 2 users might benefit from compatibility with older Node/npm versions if their frontend dependencies require it, so I am open to you submitting a PR to not use the ?? operator, and I will happily tag a new version on Twill 2.x.

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twill/.github/workflows/build.yml at 2.12.4 · area17/twill

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nikhiltri_OP•17mo ago

Great, thanks for the speedy reply! PR submitted, and we'll work on upgrading Node so we can be ready to upgrade to Twill 3!

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