As I lamented here , I often feel like I spend more time trying to keep my dev environment up to date than I do writing code. I have a script that I use to start up Discourse with a bunch of ENV settings that also does a bunch of other stuff. Today it was failing to get the correct version of nodejs …

This is for local dev environments with Docker, correct?

No. Without docker. If you’re using docker then all of this is handled on the docker container.

Jay, I wish I could react with multiple :chefs_kiss:. Tested on Ubuntu on WSL as non-root, stumbled upon a few hiccups and things to do before successfully running it. I just had to: Install asdf [1] as precised in your guide and nodejs [2] prior to running the script Run sudo chown -R $(whoam…

One attempt at keeping a Dev environment up to date

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 17, 2025, 2:18am 5

Hmm. Yeah. Maybe it should check that nodejs is installed. I’m not sure how I offish nodejs in a new machine.

Thanks

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