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felixpalmer
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Apr 14, 2025
| @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ PRs and bug reports are welcome, and we are actively looking for new maintainers | |||
| The **master** branch is the active development branch. | |||
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| Building deck.gl locally from the source requires node.js `>=14`. Further limitations on the Node version may be imposed by [puppeteer](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer#usage) and [headless-gl](https://github.com/stackgl/headless-gl#supported-platforms-and-nodejs-versions). | |||
| We use [yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install) to manage the dependencies of deck.gl. | |||
| We use [yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install) to manage the dependencies of deck.gl, and [volta](https://docs.volta.sh/guide/getting-started) to manage the Node and yarn version. | |||
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I've been using Volta since we added it in deck.gl. At the same time other projects I work on use corepack and it has painful and frustrating experience (see #9523). I'm going to switch to using corepack exclusively now, and I wonder if it would be better to recommend that here
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How do you manage your node version then? I thought core pack was only for yarn
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Fair point, I'm using node 22.8 and it is just working. I really wanted volta to work, but it just didn't play nice with corepack :/
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Installed on a new computer and discovered since
yarn bootstrapno longer builds, the website doesn't work until after runningyarn build. Adding this to the docs for new contributors.