Version issues with node and grunt

[heylookltsme]

This isn't really an issue with this project per se, but I wanted to document my experience in case it helps others.

I cloned the repo and ran npm install. I didn't have grunt already, so I installed it globally, npm install -g grunt. Then I went to run grunt dev to build the project and I get an error -

Fatal error in ../deps/v8/src/api.cc, line 1051

Boooo. So I googled and this error is documented here and here. I followed the suggestion from that first link and updated all my dependencies. Now grunt works like a charm, yay!

But I start dev'ing and I run into a bunch of issues with the development build of the extension... (you can see where this is going...). After some debugging, I realize that the problem (or one of them, anyway), is that I updated to a backwards-compatibly breaking version of lodash and scope binding was all screwed up.

At that point, I realized how foolish it was to just update all the project dependencies and expect that nothing would break. 🙃 🔫 So I wiped node_modules/ and started over. Since many of the dependency versions are quite old, I figured the problem was with the version of node that I was using (v7.2.1), so I installed nvm and version v6.9.0 and viola, problem solved! I could now use grunt.

So yeah, like I said, not a problem with this project per se, but a headache for me when I thought what I wanted to do would be super simple. Perhaps the project could include an .nvmrc to make it explicit that node 7 isn't going to work out? Either way, I hope documenting this here saves other folks some time. ❤️

[berrberr]

Thank you for the detailed write up!! This is definitely something that should be fixed -- setup should be as painless as possible. I ran npm-check-updates and ... basically every package is either old or very old 😭

 browserify                  ~3.39.0  →  ~14.1.0
 browserify-shim              ~3.7.0  →  ~3.8.13
 grunt                        ~0.4.5  →   ~1.0.1
 grunt-browserify             ~3.1.0  →   ~5.0.0
 grunt-contrib-clean          ~0.5.0  →   ~1.0.0
 grunt-contrib-compress      ~0.10.0  →   ~1.4.1
 grunt-contrib-copy           ~0.5.0  →   ~1.0.0
 grunt-contrib-jshint        ~0.12.0  →   ~1.1.0
 grunt-contrib-uglify         ~0.4.0  →   ~2.2.0
 grunt-karma                 ^0.12.1  →   ^2.0.0
 grunt-lintspaces             ~0.7.0  →   ~0.8.1
 grunt-mkdir                  ~0.1.1  →   ~1.0.0
 grunt-sass                   ^1.1.0  →   ^2.0.0
 jshint-stylish               ~0.2.0  →   ~2.2.1
 karma                      ^0.13.14  →   ^1.5.0
 karma-browserify             ^4.4.0  →   ^5.1.1
 karma-jasmine                ^0.3.6  →   ^1.1.0
 karma-phantomjs2-launcher    ^0.3.2  →   ^0.5.0
 knockout                     ~3.3.0  →   ~3.4.2
 es6-promise                  ^3.0.2  →   ^4.1.0
 lodash                      ~3.10.0  →  ~4.17.4
 sinon                       ^1.11.1  →   ^2.1.0
 sinon-chrome                 ^0.2.0  →   ^2.1.3
 chai                         ~1.9.1  →   ~3.5.0
 grunt-contrib-watch          ~0.6.1  →   ~1.0.0
 grunt-exec                   ~0.4.6  →   ~2.0.0
 karma-spec-reporter          0.0.23  →   0.0.30
 watchify                     ~2.1.0  →   ~3.9.0

I think that most of these should be pretty painless / safe to update, I'll give it a go.

[heylookltsme]

Godspeed and many thanks!! :D

I'm not sure about any of the others, but I know that that lodash 4.x definitely introduces breaking changes. Maybe try updating everything but lodash first?