Node Version and Provisioning

[nfourteen]

I just created a new project with this box and installed Magento 2.2. I'm trying to set up Grunt and I get errors like the following:

npm WARN engine sntp@2.1.0: wanted: {"node":">=4.0.0"} (current: {"node":"v0.10.25","npm":"1.3.10"})
npm WARN engine cryptiles@3.1.2: wanted: {"node":">=4.0.0"} (current: {"node":"v0.10.25","npm":"1.3.10"})
npm WARN engine boom@4.3.1: wanted: {"node":">=4.0.0"} (current: {"node":"v0.10.25","npm":"1.3.10"})
npm WARN engine hoek@4.2.0: wanted: {"node":">=4.0.0"} (current: {"node":"v0.10.25","npm":"1.3.10"})
npm WARN engine har-schema@2.0.0: wanted: {"node":">=4"} (current: {"node":"v0.10.25","npm":"1.3.10"})

I can't find where Node is provisioned on this box and the version from a fresh install is v0.10.25. The current stable version of Node is 8.9.1. Is Node provisioned or was it installed on the base box and that's why it's out of date?

[nfourteen]

I originally thought I could't set up Grunt because of the Node version warnings breaking the install. It seems it's related to phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16. See New project trying to install phantom-prebuilt @2.1.11 and getting errors #599.

Here's my error output:

> phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install [install-location]/magento2ce/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
> node install.js

[install-location]/magento2ce/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/node_modules/request/node_modules/hawk/node_modules/boom/lib/index.js:5
const Hoek = require('hoek');
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> ([install-location]/magento2ce/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/node_modules/request/node_modules/hawk/lib/index.js:5:33)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! weird error 8
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Still trying to figure out a work around, but I don't believe this is a Node version issue on the box anymore.

[nfourteen]

I was able to get Grunt up and running by installing nvm and Node version 8.9.1 per @hwinn4's comment.

These were the commands I used after installing nvm on the box per nvm instructions.

nvm install 8.9.1
nvm use system
npm ls -g --depth 0 // needed to get preinstalled globals
nvm use 8.9.1
npm install -g grunt-cli@1.2.0 // preinstalled system global
npm install -g gulp@3.9.1 // preinstalled system global
npm install

Still not sure if the box has an old Node version on it or if phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 is pulling in the legacy binary.

[paliarush]

@nfourteen the box has all tools pre-installed so your point is correct that they may be outdated.

I'm not a front-end developer and do not use those tools so would really appreciate if you could provide a PR with the fix. Upgrade can be done in a way similar to varnish upgrade

Do you think you would be able to create PR? From my side I can run the tests for your PR branch before accepting it.

[nfourteen]

@paliarush Sorry it's taken a while to respond. I've been working on this and will create a PR, just running some more tests to make sure there are no permission issues and there's compatibility with older versions of Magento's package.json config file.

[paliarush]

@nfourteen Merged PR, thank you.