yarn-plugin-engines

Yarn Berry plugin to enforce Node version.

ContaAzul

While we update all projects to support Yarn 3+, there is an annoying feature in Yarn 1 that deep checks node and yarn versions from dependencies and breaks our pipelines installations.

In order to avoid it and still manage to control theses versions in development while keeping our pipelines intact, we added selfEngines to act as engines in those already migrated Yarn 3 projects.

When all migrations are finished, we can rollback to the original plugin and delete this fork.

To use it, import from out fork:

yarn plugin import https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ContaAzul/yarn-plugin-engines/main/bundles/%40yarnpkg/plugin-engines.js

So, just use it like engines field inside package.json, just replacing for selfEngines:

{
  "name": "my-package",
  "selfEngines": {
    "node": ">=18",
    "yarn": ">=3"
  }
}

Installation

$ yarn plugin import https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devoto13/yarn-plugin-engines/main/bundles/%40yarnpkg/plugin-engines.js

Usage

Specify the desired Node version constraint using engines.node field and the plugin will fail installation if the current Node version does not satisfy it:

$ cat package.json
{
    "name": "my-package",
    "engines": {
        "node": ">= 42"
    }
}
$ yarn
yarn
➤ YN0000: ┌ Project validation
➤ YN0000: │ The current node version 14.17.3 does not satisfy the required version >= 42.
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: Failed with errors in 0s 5ms

As well as fail a script execution with a non-zero exit code:

$ cat package.json
{
    "name": "my-package",
    "scripts": {
        "build": "echo success!"
    },
    "engines": {
        "node": ">= 42"
    }
}
$ yarn build
The current node version 14.17.3 does not satisfy the required version >= 42.

Supported engines keys

• node to control the version of Node. Besides the desired version, it is possible to set this key to .nvmrc constant. In this case plugin will read the desired version from the .nvmrc file.
• yarn to control the version of Yarn.

Disable the check

Sometimes it is desired to ignore the engines check in certain environment. For example, when running renovate which uses its own Node version not controlled by the project developer. In such cases PLUGIN_YARN_ENGINES_DISABLE=1 environment variable can be set to disable the plugin.

Motivation

It's important to ensure that all developers on the team use the same version of Node to avoid "it does not work on my machine" kind of problems. With Yarn 1 one can set engines.node field in the project's package.json to communicate the required Node version, but this feature is missing in Yarn 2+. Hopefully one day this will be implemented in Yarn core making the plugin obsolete.