Web3.storage is failed to npm install due to npm version

[IntelMin]

I was trying to run yarn add web3.storage.
Following error occurred. My node version is 14.17.5.

error ipfs-unixfs@6.0.9: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=16.0.0". Got "14.17.5"
error Found incompatible module.

I found that ipfs-unixfs@6.0.9 module is published a few days ago and this could be a reason of this error.
Is there anyway to install web3.stroage by not upgrading node to 16.0.0?

[TeodorescuCostin]

Hi,
In the package.json the node engine version is specified as "16.x" so I think (but I am not 100% sure) that you would need to update it.
Here is the line of code:

"engines": {
    "node": "16.x",
    "npm": ">=7.x"
}

I think you can use NVM if you want to use multiple node versions.

[olizilla]

Yes, @TeodorescuCostin is correct. We recommend you upgrade to node v16. node 14 is in maintenance mode and node 16 is active, and in ~3 months node 18 will be the thing.
see: https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/

We don't have the bandwidth currently to make things work on node14 but if the diff is managable we're very open to PRs to make it work and add it to the test matrix.
see: #1014 (comment)

I'm going to close this as I think this issue is covered in #1014