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Hey @npmjs module owners, if you reduce your supported engines (or include a version bump for a dependency which does), then that's a *breaking* change and should be treated as such.
Permalink On twitter.com 2021 Dec 13 Mood +2 🙂

…in reply to @develwoutacause
I think I've found at least three transitive dependency updates today which broke semver and I keep nvm install-ing different versions just to get things to install correctly. There shouldn't be enough churn in this value for it to become a problem.
Permalink On twitter.com 2021 Dec 13 Mood -3 🙁

…in reply to @develwoutacause
Sidebar: Is there any tooling which helps ensure that a dependency version bump *doesn't* change the supported engines of a package? This applies to transitive dependencies, so is there some way to confirm that I'm not introducing a breakage for users by updating a dependency.
Permalink On twitter.com 2021 Dec 13 Mood +5 🙂

…in reply to @develwoutacause
I imagine dependency resolution logic likely makes a foolproof tool impossible, since @npmjs could pick a version with satisfies all the semver requirements **and** the user's Node version. But the engines field shouldn't be reduced in a patch or minor version anyways, so 🤷‍♂️.
On twitter.com 2021 Dec 13 Mood +2 🙂