Support Node 18 compatibility in @grafana/faro-core for Angular 15 / CI pipelines

[andac-e]

Hi there 👋,

I’m running an Angular 15 project on Node 18.20.8 and recently bumped into this error during CI/CD:

error @grafana/[email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=20.0.0". Got "18.20.8"

I’m using:

• @grafana/faro-web-sdk 1.12.2
• @grafana/faro-web-tracing 1.12.2
• @opentelemetry/api 1.9.0

…and cannot upgrade our pipeline or dev machines to Node 20 just yet, because:

1. Angular 15 officially supports Node ^14.20.0 || ^16.13.0 || ^18.10.0
2. Our CI workflow is locked to Node 18 for other dependencies.

Questions for the maintainers / community

1. Is there any plan to relax or backport the engines.node field in @grafana/[email protected] so it will accept Node 18?
2. If not, could the team recommend an official best practice or workaround for Angular 15 users on Node 18?
3. Would a minor release that bumps compatibility down to “>=18.10.0” be feasible, given that the SDK is browser-only?

Thank you for any guidance or pointers! 🙏

[andac-e]

Thanks for tracking this down! It looks like Node 18 support was added in commit 223f17749a5e1eeb0969a5efad144ffc7f5f7cc7. Upgrading to a release that includes this commit resolves the installation error under Node 18. I’ll go ahead and close this discussion.