I'm trying to run grunt for a custom development on Moodle 3.3. I'm a bit stuck
nodejs is a bit of mystery to me which doesn't help.
When I try to run 'grunt' I get this error...
Fatal error: Node version too old. Require >=8.9.0 <8.10.0, version installed: 8.11.1
which is both incorrect and unhelpful. Any thoughts?
Hi Howard,
you should stick with the LTS version of node supported by Moodle i.e. 8.9 (maintained up to Apr 2019): MDL-60503.
You can find it in https://nodejs.org/download/release/v8.9.4/ : it worth noting that you could file an issue into the Tracker to take care of bumping the 8.x LTS version to the latest available, at least in 3.5 (my +1 for 3.4 too).
HTH,
Matteo
Thanks!
I might be being a bit dim... but I downloaded and expanded the file and now what do I do with it? There's no installation instructions that I can find.
For those as dim as me, I found some likely looking instructions (well Google did)...
https://github.com/nodejs/help/wiki/Installation
node seems to work, but not npm. Still investigating.
One of the less user friendly bits of software I have encountered...
EDIT
Sorted... actually reading the instructions properly helps. Works as advertised.
I don't really feel qualified to put in a tracker report. I just use this stuff mindlessly.I should probably have a proper look. Add it to "the list"
Here's a good way to change between versions of Node (I need 8.9.4 for Moodle and 11 for Angular)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7718313/how-to-change-to-an-older-version-of-node-js
I've used a Node Version Manager called n before. This certainly did the trick in the same circumstances you describe.