<# .SYNOPSIS Switching the machine's Node version, shared by start-local.ps1 and run-tests.ps1. .DESCRIPTION Both scripts need Node 20 or newer for the same reason: node-pg-migrate pulls in an lru-cache that calls diagnostics_channel.tracingChannel(), which does not exist before Node 19.9. On Node 18 the migration dies inside minified library code with "(0 , U.tracingChannel) is not a function", a message that says nothing about versions. ts-jest and Playwright are subject to the same floor. Kept in one file because two copies of a version switch would drift, and the half that drifts is the half nobody runs. nvm-windows rewrites a machine-global symlink (NVM_SYMLINK, typically C:\nvm4w\nodejs) rather than changing one shell, so switching here changes the Node version for every terminal on the machine. That is intended — the point is to work in whatever shell is already open — but it is announced rather than done quietly, and it is put back afterwards. #> function Get-NodeVersionString { return (node --version 2>$null) } function Get-NodeMajor { $raw = Get-NodeVersionString if (-not $raw) { return 0 } return [int](($raw -replace '^v', '') -split '\.')[0] } <# Switches, then checks what is actually running. nvm-windows exits 0 for switches that did not take: a version it cannot find, a symlink it cannot rewrite without elevation, and — seen on this machine — a rewrite immediately after another one, where the directory symlink is briefly still the old target. So the result is verified rather than trusted, and retried once, because reporting a version that is not the one running is worse than not switching at all. nvm's own output is captured rather than discarded. Suppressing it hid the only message that explained a failed switch. #> function Use-Node { param( [Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$Version, [Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$Why, [scriptblock]$Step, [scriptblock]$Note ) if ($Step) { & $Step "Switching Node to $Version ($Why)" } if ($Note) { & $Note 'nvm changes the version for every shell on this machine, not just this one' } $output = $null foreach ($attempt in 1..2) { $output = (nvm use $Version 2>&1 | Out-String).Trim() $raw = Get-NodeVersionString if ($raw) { # An alias resolves to whatever nvm picked, so there is no version # string to compare it against — the caller checks the major # instead. What is checked here is nvm's own report, because it # announces a switch it could not make while still exiting 0. # Treating an alias as always-successful is what turned "the version # nvm wanted is not installed" into a claim that the newest install # was too old, which sent the reader to `nvm install` holding a list # that already had newer versions on it. $switched = if ($Version -in @('latest', 'lts', 'newest')) { $output -notmatch 'activation error|not installed' } else { $raw.TrimStart('v') -eq $Version.TrimStart('v') } if ($switched) { if ($Note) { & $Note "node $raw" } return $raw } } if ($attempt -eq 1) { if ($Note) { & $Note 'the switch has not taken yet; retrying' } Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 750 } } $running = Get-NodeVersionString if (-not $running) { throw "Node is not on PATH after 'nvm use $Version'. Check that nvm-windows is installed.`n`nnvm said:`n$output" } throw @" Asked nvm for Node $Version, but $running is still what runs. nvm said: $output nvm-windows rewrites a symlink at $env:NVM_SYMLINK, and can report success without having rewritten it. Check the version is installed, and that this shell can write that link: nvm list "@ } # The version every local run uses. Pinned rather than asked for by alias, so # two machines run the same Node instead of whatever each happens to have # installed. Bump it here and it moves for start-local.ps1 and run-tests.ps1 # together; the floor check below is a backstop against pinning it too low, not # the specification. $script:NODE_VERSION = '26.7.0' <# Switches to the pinned version and insists it clears the floor. Asking nvm for an alias is what this used to do, and the two alias names are worth recording because they are easy to swap by accident. `newest` means the newest version installed on this machine. `latest` means the newest that exists — nvm-windows resolves it against the remote release list — so on a machine whose newest install is behind the current release, `nvm use latest` reports "activation error: Version not installed" and leaves the old version running. This asked for `latest` and reported the failure as "the newest version nvm has installed is too old", which was false and sent the reader to install something they already had. See #198. A version that is not installed is Use-Node's error to report, and it now reports nvm's own reason, so there is nothing to say about it here. #> function Use-NodeLatest { param([scriptblock]$Step, [scriptblock]$Note) Use-Node -Version $script:NODE_VERSION -Why 'this project needs Node 20 or newer' -Step $Step -Note $Note | Out-Null $major = Get-NodeMajor if ($major -lt 20) { throw @" Node is v$major after switching to $($script:NODE_VERSION), which is below the 20 this project needs. NODE_VERSION in scripts/NodeVersion.ps1 is pinned to a version that is too old. node-pg-migrate, ts-jest and Playwright all need 20 or newer. "@ } } <# Best effort by design. A failure to switch back must not mask the error that got us here, nor turn a passing run into a failing one — but it must still say so, because leaving the machine on the wrong version silently is how the next confusing failure starts. #> function Restore-Node { param( [Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$Version, [scriptblock]$Step, [scriptblock]$Note ) try { Use-Node -Version $Version -Why 'restoring the machine default' -Step $Step -Note $Note | Out-Null } catch { if ($Note) { & $Note "could not restore Node ${Version}: $($_.Exception.Message)" } } }