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Moonfire NVR, a security camera network video recorder
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Raspberry Pi & Node.js -- What Version? #148

Closed jlpoolen closed 3 years ago

jlpoolen commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Raspberry Pi & Node

To Reproduce Raspberry Pi4 running Linux pi 5.10.17-v7l+ #1414 SMP Fri Apr 30 13:20:47 BST 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux

Building moonfire-nvr requires running node for the ui component. The current high watermark for node available through the standard apt (default) is v10.24.0. Some of the libraries/components for the UI state they need v12: putty_2021-08-19_18-45-47

I was looking at alternative ways to install a later version of Node.js and found this page:

Trying to build Node on a Raspberry Pi is probably a 2-4 day endeavor per https://gist.github.com/nwawrzyniak/58d087f9d0ad70c3e41584b077e1f13e.

Setting Up Node.js On Raspberry Pi identifies alternative ways.

What is troubling is what looks to be Node downgrading support for the armv6 processor [Raspberry Pi] to experimental starting with v12.0.0 https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org/pull/2205

So, as if August 21, 2021, what version of Node should one install on a Raspberry Pi4? And do you have a preferred method of installation?

scottlamb commented 3 years ago

I'm trying to follow what node does so I can update packages as necessary for security fixes and such. node says 10 has reached end-of-life, so I'm not trying to support it anymore. It broke when I updated gzipper or some such.

Did you see these paragraphs I recently added to the install instructions?

To build the UI, you'll need a nodejs release in "Maintenance LTS" or "Active LTS" status: currently v12 or v14.

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Ubuntu 20.04 (the latest LTS as of this writing) bundles node 10, which has reached end-of-life (see node.js: releases). So rather than install the nodejs and npm packages from the built-in repository, see Installing Node.js via package manager.

Do those answer your question?

What is troubling is what looks to be Node downgrading support for the armv6 processor [Raspberry Pi] to experimental starting with v12.0.0 nodejs/nodejs.org#2205

The original Raspberry Pi is armv6 iirc, but Pi2 is armv7, and pi3 and pi4 are armv8. I think both 32-bit and 64-bit Raspberry Pi OSs should be supported with the official node packages.

scottlamb commented 3 years ago

My own Pi4 (running the Raspberry Pi 64-bit OS beta) has node 14 installed via the https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x. I'm not regularly building on it anymore because I'm instead dogfooding the cross-compiled docker container. But I tried a build on it now, and it seems to work.

The continuous integration tests are running with node version 12, version 14, and version 16.

jlpoolen commented 3 years ago

Thank you. Installing v.14.17.5 now.

jlpoolen commented 3 years ago

Installation worked.

Download page: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
downloaded ARMv7:  https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.17.5/node-v14.17.5-linux-armv7l.tar.xz

VERSION=v14.17.5
DISTRO=linux-armv71
sudo tar -xJvf node-$VERSION-$DISTRO.tar.xz -C /usr/local/lib/nodejs

Thank you. Will be opening another issue... configuration re: ui directory ( I feel like I had this issue a year ago, but could not find reference to it.)