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If I stop working on a project for 3 years, will I still be able to compile it, without losing an unpredictablt amount of time to fixing the toolchain? If not,
by boplicity 1y ago
If I stop working on a project for 3 years, will I still be able to compile it, without losing an unpredictablt amount of time to fixing the toolchain? If not, then its not really stable, is it?
- cowsandmilk 1y agoAs someone who “owns” a framework at work that has been unfunded for several years, the answer is definitively yes. I haven’t touched the build toolchain in all those years and the project continues to build a dozen different JavaScript libraries with no issues across multiple Node.js upgrades. The current version of webpack was released 5 years ago. You can keep using eslint 8 which was released 4 years ago. This really isn’t the constantly changing space it was in the 2010’s
- azangru 1y ago> If I stop working on a project for 3 years, will I still be able to compile it You will certainly be able to compile it. You might have hard time updating it though.
- whstl 1y agoWith version pinning and lockfiles, sure. Updating is a different matter, if you're using multiple tools, hundreds of packages and several configuration files. Which is why a unified tool that doesn't require configuring 20 tools at once is a good idea IMO.