node-sass VS yarn

For many years, Culture Amp took the second option, and distributed shared components without compiled CSS. This meant that every app that consumed shared components needed to include the necessary CSS build tooling – at that time CSS Modules and node-sass – with a compatible version and configuration. This was relatively easy to set up, but over time proved difficult to maintain. When node-sass was deprecated in favour of (the much faster but slightly incompatible) Dart Sass, this demanded a difficult lock-step migration across all those codebases, which we have yet to achieve. And as new applications have switched to Tailwind for their own styles, they've had to continue to maintain those old build tools in parallel for the shared components' styles.

The project that we developed use a node version 14.18.0 and we use a node-sass version 4.14.1 package and this package also deprecated for today.

ES 2 component Sass files are compiled using dart Sass instead of node-sass. This change was made because node-sass has been deprecated.

node-sass - yes i am aware its deprecated 😅

C:\Webparts\react-script-editor>npm install npm WARN deprecated @types/[email protected]: This is a stub types definition. classnames provides its own type definitions, so you do not need this installed. > [email protected] install C:\Webparts\react-script-editor\node_modules\node-sass > node scripts/install.js Downloading binary from https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.12.0/win32-x64-83_binding.node Cannot download "https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.12.0/win32-x64-83_binding.node": HTTP error 404 Not Found

Are you referring to when it's trying to download 'https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.12.0/win32-x64-83_binding.node' after I typed 'npm install'?

This Github issue helped me a lot.

remote: ERROR in ./app/javascript/stylesheets/application.scss (./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--7-1!./node_modules/postcss-loader/src??ref--7-2!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--7-3!./app/javascript/stylesheets/application.scss) remote: Module build failed (from ./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js): remote: Error: Node Sass does not yet support your current environment: Linux 64-bit with Unsupported runtime (93) remote: For more information on which environments are supported please see: remote: https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/tag/v4.14.1 remote: at module.exports (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/node-sass/lib/binding.js:13:13) remote: at Object. (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/node-sass/lib/index.js:14:35) remote: at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14) remote: at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10) remote: at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32) remote: at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12) remote: at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19) remote: at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18) remote: at getDefaultSassImpl (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/sass-loader/dist/index.js:198:10) remote: at Object.loader (/tmp/build_37040035/node_modules/sass-loader/dist/index.js:80:29)

Ah damn I did not save the full error before uninstalling everything and rethinking my next move. From the various posts it seems I'm not the only one having the same issue, but never really found out what the smartest solution would be to go forward as none of those suggestions worked with the latest node-js version.

instead. Please refer tothis issue for guidance. Following the instructions in this issue will ensure the correct installation of Yarn.

As an alternative, you can use the Yarn CLI command:

The PR for Auto detect and merge lockfile conflicts provides insight into the latest implementation in /src/lockfile/parse.js.

this this maybe https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/8331

Yarn, but you can use npm or pnpm as alternatives to yarn if you prefer.

Yarn definitely shot themselves in the foot badly. PnP identified real problems & came up with a solution, but pnpm is doing a similar set of tricks but in a Node-ecosystem-compatible way, with next to no compatibility issues (versus package maintainers having to each individually support Yarn V2 PnP). Yarn V2 seemingly thought they could get the entire npm package world to switch to yarn, saw their growth & saw the thought-leaders & decided their winning was a fait-accompli.

And they didn't really execute very well... v2 landed, there was controversy, and there's been so little visible or exciting good news about it. It over-played Yarns so hand they renamed Yarn v2 as Berry, just to re-gather the troops & make a staging point forward. But it's still an incredibly hard pill to swallow, and the "yarn (berry) is great, the ecosystem needs to change" attitude seemingly isn't gaining any traction and it's hard to tell where Yarn could go.

In Yarn v3[1], they've introduced a modular "linker" system for how to install packages, that seemingly might get them able to experiment around/play around a little more & be less constrained than the hard-path they'd crusaded for.

One thing I will say for Yarn, that makes me unbelievably happy versus npm (announced during the V2[2] announcement):

> Yarn is first and foremost a Node API that can be used programmatically (via @yarnpkg/core)

Npm is the premier tool for open-source javascript, but it itself is one of the least open-source efforts on the planet. I finally started digging around the npm package and it's underlying cacache cache-structure, and it's just infinitely unpleasant to get started with. There's maybe like 3 articles on the whole planet that have any guidance for what npm is inside, how it works, what you can do with it, how you can hack it. Yarn identifying that the package manager itself is something that developers need access to is a huge win & I want to thank them forever for putting that on their bullet list of great Yarn things.

[1] https://dev.to/arcanis/yarn-3-0-performances-esbuild-better-...

[2] "Yarn's Future - v2 and beyond" https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953

Unfortunately, as I found out, yarn's resolutions property has a long history of not playing well with optionalDependencies: anything placed into resolutions is treated as required and will abruptly fail to install if it is, for example, a platform-specific package appropriate for your deploy environment but not your dev environment or vice versa, as is the case here.

It was July 2021. I started with [email protected] since I’ve been using it for a long time. Yarn was fast, but soon I met several issues with Yarn Workspaces. E.g., not hoisting dependencies correctly, and tons of issues are tagged with “fixed in modern”, which redirects me to the v2 (berry).

Upgrading dependencies: Yarn 1's yarn upgradeonly upgrades direct dependencies of the current workspace. Yarn 2's up ignores the version ranges in your package.json and upgrades for all workspaces. npm's and pnpm'supdate respect your version ranges and upgrade indirect dependencies as well.