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@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ Flask-Appbuilder itself comes bundled with jQuery and bootstrap.
 While these may be phased out over time, these packages are currently not
 managed with npm.
 
+### Node/npm versions
+Make sure you are using recent versions of node and npm. No problems have been found with node>=5.10 and npm>=3.9.
 
 ### Using npm to generate bundled files