README.md development setup for apple silicon and others

[MarcBaeuerle]

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I noticed a week ago you migrated from yarn to npm, however I tried setting up the project for the first time today and I was running into issues when running npm install (command failed: yarn run postinstall-postinstall), until I used the correct yarn version (v1). Originally included this in the readme but removed since I don't know if that will be fixed, should I create an issue?

[domoritz]

Why is this arm specific or depends on the node version?

Doesn't the error message already describe what packages may be needed?

[MarcBaeuerle]

arm specific: the error messages just stated that it failed to fetch canvas packages. Since there are no prebuilt binaries that can be downloaded for apple silicon, the workaround is needed. No clear error messages and StackOverflow threads were outdated.

yarn: npm install only worked with yarn v1, and failed with yarn v2 v3 and v4. There were no error messages that indicated you need to switch versions, I only knew this because I faced a similar issue before.

[domoritz]

Hmm, which node version do you have. I just tried in my M1 Mac and didn't need to build canvas with node 20.

~/Developer/editor on  master via  v20.18.0 took 13s ❯ trash node_modules/
~/Developer/editor on  master via  v20.18.0 ❯ npm i
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: This package is no longer supported.
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: Rimraf versions prior to v4 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated @humanwhocodes/[email protected]: Use @eslint/config-array instead
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: Rimraf versions prior to v4 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: This package is no longer supported.
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated @humanwhocodes/[email protected]: Use @eslint/object-schema instead
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: This package is no longer supported.
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: This version is no longer supported. Please see https://eslint.org/version-support for other options.

> postinstall
> husky && npx patch-package
...

[MarcBaeuerle]

I tried with node 18, 23, 21. I could test again by removing canvas if you'd like. Also, running the editor with docker gives me the same canvas errors.

[domoritz]

Thanks for checking. I made the message a bit more generic as this may apply to never x86 as well.