Installing volto from packages, node version question

tiberiuichim · March 16, 2023, 6:50pm

plone/volto/blob/48d7d62e8c5f122f6b6cae2860650e3547187ac8/packages/generator-volto/package.json#L99


      
              "prettier --write",
              "git add"
            ]
          },
          "husky": {
            "hooks": {
              "pre-commit": "lint-staged"
            }
          },
          "engines": {
            "node": "^16 || ^18"
          },
          "dependencies": {
            "ansi-escapes": "2.0.0",
            "chalk": "^2.1.0",
            "commander": "2.9.0",
            "cross-spawn": "5.1.0",
            "eslint-config-standard": "^16.0.2",
            "execa": "0.6.3",
            "fs-extra": "3.0.0",
            "gitly": "2.0.3",

shows the engines as 16 or 18.

Try to install the latest generator, 7.0.0-alpha.2

Please note that, as far as we know, Volto doesn't run on Windows. None of the core developers have tried it or tried to run it, so you'll likely get into more problems.

To save yourself some time, make a git clone of plone/volto and try to run it directly from there (yarn + yarn start). Then you'll at least avoid the problem of generating the project, if Volto won't run at all.