Node 16 Support To Code-Server

[flameface]

We wanted nodejs16 support to Code-Server in termux

[jawnsy]

Tagging related issues: #4258 #4225

Upstream vscode does not support Node.js 14, as I understand it, so that makes it difficult for us to guarantee reliable support for it.

One of the commenters mentioned that it's possible to install Node.js 14 on termux - have you tried that? Binary builds of code-server (which include an appropriate Node.js runtime) for a wider variety of ARM processors might help for this issue as well.

[oz-orz]

You can install nodejs-lts on Termux, which is a 14.x version of nodejs. That will let you set up code-server.

[rudimediaz]

You can install nodejs-lts on Termux, which is a 14.x version of nodejs. That will let you set up code-server.

termux nodejs-lts now is v16

[tjatkowski]

Any update on that? I've been trying to install nodejs 14 on Tremux for many hours now with no success :(

[jsjoeio]

None so far :( We'll let you know when we have any updates here. We're focusing on getting the next release but we can take a look in the next sprint!

[arHSM]

Any update on that? I've been trying to install nodejs 14 on Tremux for many hours now with no success :(

One way is to use proot-distro I've had some issues with directly installing code-server on termux but after installing ubuntu with proot-distro and following this guide to install nodejs 14.x and yarn on it I was able to setup code-server pretty easily by running curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh and proot-distro also mounts your /storage so you can just run termux-setup-storage outside of the proot-distro and allow termux access to your storage after that you can just start code server by code-server

EDIT : Just think that this could be helpful, the guide I mentioned work just fine but I tried playing with NVM it works pretty well and installing nodejs v14 is pretty easier than the above-mentioned guide.

[im-coder-lg]

Any update on that? I've been trying to install nodejs 14 on Tremux for many hours now with no success :(

About this, you could add Node 14 by getting+unzipping the tar zip, and moving it to /usr/bin. Then you can get code-server 3.10.2 and use it.

[jsjoeio]

@im-coder-lg have you had any luck with nvm? I installed it in Termux but now I'm getting this error:

~/downloads/release $ nvm use 14
Now using node v14.18.3 (npm v6.14.15)
~/downloads/release $ node -v
bash: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.3/bin/node: No such file or directory

I'll have to see if I can figure out how to fix this

[im-coder-lg]

I had luck on my Raspberry Pi, it worked flawlessly. Did you use the real nvm by nvm-sh?

[jsjoeio]

Yup, that's the one I was using. Maybe I installed it wrong or am missing something in my PATH on Termux. Not sure. Oh well. Next time I'm in there I'll try again

[im-coder-lg]

I ended up with the same NVM error on Termux. Hope it's fixed soon.

[arHSM]

I ended up with the same NVM error on Termux.

As stated on the NVM guide for Alpine linux

downloaded binary to run correctly - you'll likely see "...does not exist" errors if you try that.

https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installing-nvm-on-alpine-linux
I doubt this can be compatibility issue with the environment termux runs, this is why i suggested using proot.

[jsjoeio]

Ah, totally missed that! Thanks for the links @arHSM!

There is a -s flag for nvm install which requests nvm download Node source and compile it locally.

I guess I'll have to try this next time

[filiptronicek]

Maybe worth mentioning microsoft/vscode#137241 here, as they track some issues about this there.

Edit: planned release MS states is Feb 2022 (v1.65)

[jsjoeio]

Oh awesome! Thanks @filiptronicek! 🙌 Glad to hear it's in progress at least.

[jsjoeio]

Closing in favor of #4894

[jawnsy]

@jsjoeio Ah, my bad, sorry about the duplicate! I should've searched first

[jsjoeio]

@jawnsy no apologies needed - yours has more information and details on how to solve it :)