Node Version 18/17

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Hi, i currently using node 18, and in the website says i need to user node version 16 or 14 and i personally want to used it with the new version, are they going to update it?

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Hi @GPeaky, thanks for your question.

By chance, have you tried to use Node 18 and Redwood? I imagine it works out of the box (edit: looks like it does, I just used node@18.3.0 locally and had no problem running my Redwood app).

In terms of 17, we generally skip odd # releases for Node as they are not the long term service ones.

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If it does work I will work with the team to update the documentation, or better yet you can contribute to it yourself over at: redwood/prerequisites.md at main · redwoodjs/redwood · GitHub

Please also see: redwood/CONTRIBUTING.md at main · redwoodjs/redwood · GitHub if this is something you’re interested in.

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Yeah, probably does. But when you use npx, yarn or pnpm to install the default application, doesn’t works, i think it because un the prerequisites you guys put a version lower than 17.0.0.

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Yup I had the exact issue recently too.
Running redwood works with higher node versions, but installing it does not.

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Thanks for letting me know, one thing to note is that there is this --no-yarn-install flag. See: Command Line Interface | RedwoodJS Docs

So for example you can use:

yarn create redwood-app my-redwood-project --no-yarn-install

to install/scaffold your new Redwood projects on versions of Node that are 17+

Hopefully that works for your use cases.