viscid meteor
Hi, I am trying to get started with Tauri. I used the create-tauri-app command and have everything setup but when I run npm run tauri dev, I get this error Error: Cannot find module 'semver'
Not sure how to solve it. I have tried updating node but it seems to always be at version 12. Even though the website says version 20.
I am running Ubuntu at the moment
orchid pewter
Hi, I am trying to get started with Tauri. I used the create-tauri-app command a...
On Ubuntu you need to add a different repository in order to install current versions of Node.js. What you have available by default through apt is really, really old
viscid meteor
oh so I have to remove the package first?
orchid pewter
Yea uninstall the current node version you have, then add nodesource, then install version 20
viscid meteor
great thanks, it's working now. Why does it default to such an old version?
orchid pewter
great thanks, it's working now. Why does it default to such an old version?
Because the Ubuntu maintainers could not give less of a f*ck about Node.js it seems? 😅
aptis based on repositories it can download packages from
By default you just have the base repos
If you just use them then yea, them being up to date is entirely up to how motivated the maintainers of those repos, in this case the Ubuntu maintainers, are, and for a bunch of these sorts of runtimes they really don't care much
viscid meteor
I see, thanks. Is Node dead in general? Replaced by stuff like Bun and Deno?
orchid pewter
I see, thanks. Is Node dead in general? Replaced by stuff like Bun and Deno?
No Node.js is very much alive. Bun and Deno are definitely cool, but Node.js is still the nr 1 JS runtime. It's just Ubuntu maintainers that are behind. They also don't much maintain things like Python and Java, but those are very, very much alive
I think for python they still have like python 3.8 or 3.9 as default, but we're on python 3.12 now. Not sure if 3.13 got released yet. But yea, they rely heavily on that if you wanna use specific versions of stuff you'll find them elsewhere, what they provide is more at the proof of concept level or "ancient utilities used by a lot of stuff use python and java and node.js so we gotta support some version so they don't stop running", they're less meant for actually using and more as dependencies of other stuff
viscid meteor
ah okay, maybe I made the wrong choice going with Ubuntu then 😅 I recently switch to Linux from Windows. So went with the one that seemed easiest
orchid pewter
ah okay, maybe I made the wrong choice going with Ubuntu then 😅 I recently swit...
Ubuntu is the easiest, this is just how Linux works 😅 Trust me you won't be finding the other distros easier, they all have their weirdnesses
Like, I think Fedora might offer sliiightly easier ways for you to install dependencies, but you run into trouble elsewhere
Ubuntu is the biggest, if it's your first Linux distro stick with it, you're gonna need the size of the Ubuntu community to assist you in getting stuff working