Node 20

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sorry not yet we had a small thread here https discord com channels 817392104711651328 1103003569654865941 1103003569654865941 and i created a tracking issue here https github com garden io garden issues 4158 it has already got quite a few reactions people do want it

alert-helicopter-61082 · Answer

Turns out Node 20 is not at all supported by pkg and I hesitate to guess when that will happen We might consider this instead then https github com leafac caxa Some pros and cons but worth an experiment imo I d be curious to see performance impact startup time etc The latter could be affected substantially by switching to Yarn PnP which does not jive with pkg or outright bundling the whole thing because it drastically reduces I O on startup Thinking ahead the general direction of making a Go CLI frontend for `garden serve` operating as a daemon exempting interactive commands like `garden dev` where startup time is less of a concern to begin with will mean we care less about startup time but we do have to think about it in the meantime But if migrating to caxa results in a proportionally small startup time delta ignoring the very first startup which we could address at install time it may well be worth it given the substantially simpler architecture By all means hold until post 0 13 launch but I d really like to probe this after

alert-helicopter-61082 · Answer

It would appear single executable development from Node 20 onwards is being pushed into Node js itself https nodejs org dist latest v20 x docs api single executable applications html Still experimental though so I wouldn t expect this to work well for us until Node 22 at least Although to be fair the pkg tool has never felt like the most stable thing

alert-helicopter-61082 · Answer

Going by the docs we d almost certainly need to bundle the whole application for this to work and would probably have to track down a bunch of small issues just relating to that

ancient-diamond-80011 · Answer

made a small attempt today at node 20 to see what kind of effort would be required on the plus side looks like there aren t that many breaking changes in 19 and 20 on the minus side as was mentioned above we re blocked on this until `pkg` and `pkg fetch` add `node20` support for the `build dist` step various other tests seemed to pass though https github com garden io garden pull 4346

alert-helicopter-61082 · Answer

Yeah I suspect we ll need to later investigate alternatives to pkg but that s a non trivial project

ancient-diamond-80011 · Answer

added a tracking issue https github com garden io garden issues 4428