I've been doing front-end development off and on for 25 years and I still had a moment like this just this week.
A different team updated a library we're supposed to use and all of a sudden, the deployed service was crashing on startup (worked locally). It appeared as though the problem was some EMCA6 syntax wasn't playing well with Babel configuration that seemed fine to me.
I got so frustrated that I ended up removing Babel (because it wasn't needed to begin with), which meant I had to change all the import statements to 'require' and had to change all the export syntax to CommonJS. Finally got it working after many hours and refactoring...
Except then I realized that the base docker image in the dockerfile was node 12 and not 16. If I had just updated the dockerfile, I wouldn't have had to remove Babel and would have saved myself a day.
Modern front-end development is sort of like child birth. Your brain conveniently forgets what it felt like to push a watermelon through a straw.
A different team updated a library we're supposed to use and all of a sudden, the deployed service was crashing on startup (worked locally). It appeared as though the problem was some EMCA6 syntax wasn't playing well with Babel configuration that seemed fine to me.
I got so frustrated that I ended up removing Babel (because it wasn't needed to begin with), which meant I had to change all the import statements to 'require' and had to change all the export syntax to CommonJS. Finally got it working after many hours and refactoring...
Except then I realized that the base docker image in the dockerfile was node 12 and not 16. If I had just updated the dockerfile, I wouldn't have had to remove Babel and would have saved myself a day.
Modern front-end development is sort of like child birth. Your brain conveniently forgets what it felt like to push a watermelon through a straw.