Hello,
First, I forget to answer to one question about npm / node.
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Do you know if it's possible to get multiple versions of the same module
in node_modules and to have node picking some dependencies that seem
more safely compatible?"
In fact by default, npm will try to use the same version of a transitive dependency. But sometimes, it's not possible. So npm use the old mecanism of dependency management. It will create a node_modules folder in one or each dependency which use the transitive dependency. In this node_modules, you will find the right version of the dependency.
To be clear, it already the case for some transitive dependencies like "jsonc-parser".
In the top level node_modules, you will find jsonc-parser version 1.0.3 and in the yaml-language-server dependency, you will find another node_modules. In this last folder jsonc-parser version is 2.1.0.
About package-lock.json. We should use the file because it's the only way to reproduce the build. For that we should use npm ci instead of npm install in the maven build. I will provide a patch just after this mail.
I know we have some troubles. I'm not sure why yet.
Here are some personnal thoughts:
- We should ask vscode team to publish each language servers on npm.
- We download a packaged version of vscode, extract the needed langage servers and then install them is not really efficient.
- Maybe (I have no clue about it) it will help for dependency resolving.
- We need to use npm ci instead of npm install when we build wildwebdeveloper (patch incoming)
- Vscode plugins use differents folder for each extensions. So language servers are independant. Maybe we should start to seperate some langage servers from each others.
- One plugin with all language servers from vscode distribution.
- One plugin per other language server.
