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The biggest issue was with using older versions of ruby or older versions of the bundler itself. We had to pin our bundler to a specific version and it caused

• hosh 2y ago
  I have had to use older versions of npm on unsupported nodejs. There was no pinning, or guard rails with upgrading. I have borked the entire npm install doing that because the later npm wanted to use newer syntax that was not backwards compatible. What you and I describe is not a bundler or npm problem so much that the software we are working on requires an outdated version of ruby and nodejs. I agree with the the other comment though — npm has more problems even when with the latest version. Like Nodejs, it is flawed by design.