_official-realtime-app can't be run

[SylRob]

Hi, when I run the example I get the error

node: bad option: --watch
ERROR: "dev:server" exited with 9.

my node version is 18.9.1

way to reproduce the error

npm install
npm run dev

[machour]

The example requires Node 19

[MichaelDeBoey]

@ryanflorence Can we rewrite the code to make it work on Node v14?

[daniserrano7]

To make it work, I changed it to

"dev": "concurrently "npm run dev:css" "remix dev""

I use Node.js 16.15.0.

[MichaelDeBoey]

@SylRob Could you please try again now that we have #126 merged?

[SylRob]

@MichaelDeBoey , nop still same for me.
pulled from main main branch, deleted node_module/, npm install, npm run dev

node: bad option: --watch
ERROR: "dev:server" exited with 9.

[machour]

@SylRob what node version are you using?

[SylRob]

@machour still v18.9.1

[machour]

The errors says:

node: bad option: --watch

--watch is used in the package.json's commands.

That option was introduced in v18.11.0, so it's not compatible with your node version.

So you can either update your node version to finally be able to make this example work for you, or you can change the commands as @daniserrano7 did to make it work on your current version.

If you do the later, please open a pull requests with your changes so that we can merge it and have this work for node < 18.11

[SylRob]

I see,
then I will update my node version to the latest recommended one.
(tomorrow, I will open a PR to update the package.json of the _official-realtime-app to change the node engine requested version)

thank you for looking into it and help me with that

[machour]

No worries.
But I rather have the example made compatible with more node versions, instead of requiring a specific one

[SylRob]

Yes that is true, but if the targeted version is the node v14, I will not be able to test it, since I can only propose a (possible) working and tested version using @daniserrano7 proposal and my 18.9 ...