Specifying a Node.js VersionĪlways specify a Node.js version that matches the runtime you’re developing and testing with. However, the testing and support focus of the buildpack will be oriented around active LTS and Stable releases. Since Heroku is based on a standard Ubuntu Linux stack, you can run most Node versions ( >= 0.10.0) on the platform. As illustrated by the Node.js release schedule below, Heroku’s currently supported Node.js versions are 16.x, 18.x, and 20.x. Heroku will support new releases within 24 hours of the official release from the Node team. Heroku supports the Current version of Node.js as well as all Active LTS (Long-Term-Support) versions.

PATCH denotes backwards-compatible bug fixes.

MINOR denotes added functionality in a backwards-compatible manner.

Semver uses a version scheme in the form. Node versions adhere to semver, the semantic versioning convention popularized by GitHub. The Heroku Node.js buildpack is employed when the application has a For a more detailedĮxplanation of how to deploy an application, see Getting Started with Node.js To the recognition and execution of Node.js applications. If we wanted to install version 2.0.This document describes the general behavior of Heroku as it relates The changes can be as specific as we want and scoped, or we can make them generic. We can now specify an overrides property in our package.json that enforces the dependency version that is specified there.

This was a tedious solution and one that required a lot of maintenance. The most common solution that developers used was to fork Package A, update Package B, and use their fork and maintain it.

|_ Package Package B Package B was updated to 2.0.0 and we wanted to use that version (there can be multiple reasons for this, the most common being other packages use the updated one), there was no easy solution for this.

Npm update package to specific version