Node.js 20.6 added built-in support for the .env file. This is an excellent addition to the platform and gives us the ability to load environment variables from .env files directly without using third-party packages. While it is great to see first-class support, some caveats remain. Let us look at how it works. Assuming that...
When installing a package using npm, you might encounter the “error: cannot find module semver” error. The error is caused because of a corrupted package-lock.json or yarn.lock. The most common reason for this is a change in the node version. Fixing “error: cannot find module semver” The fix is a...
Node 17 introduced OpenSSL v3.0, which brought in some breaking changes, and the “Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported” is a result of one such change. It can be solved by passing in a “–openssl-legacy-provider” flag when running the application. Setting the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable We can set the environment variable that...
I recently ran into the “node: –openssl-legacy-provider is not allowed in node_options” error while working with Node 17. It occurs when the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable is set with the value –openssl-legacy-provider. I had set that value for another project I tried recently, which conflicted with this project. Fixing the “node:...
I recently was working with a third-party library. I ran into the error “Uncaught SyntaxError: cannot use import statement outside a module” when I tried to import a function from the package. Let us look into why it occurred and how I fixed it. Why is this happening? The error...
npm configurations allow us to do quite a lot of nifty things. One of them is to allow the project to set the Node.js version that needs to be used in order to run the project. This also provides us with the functionality to prevent npm install for unsupported Node.js...
I was recently trying to use a later version of Node on Repl.it. I wanted to use a package that supported ES Modules, and the default version did not have support for it. So I wanted to use the latest node version in Repl.it. And found that there was no...
If you have been following the javascript ecosystem for a while, you already know that even though ES6 modules are a thing, you still cannot import/export ES6 modules in node.js as of today. Node 10 experimental flag for importing/exporting ES6 modules in Node Though Node 10 has added an experimental...
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