THE TRAGEDY OF RUNNING AN OLD NODE PROJECT

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This developer attempted to update their four-year-old Gatsby website but ran into difficulties running the old Node project. The `npm install` command failed repeatedly due to missing Python 2 and incompatible C++ compiler versions. Troubleshooting involved installing Python 2, discovering a required older Node.js version (v12.2), and ultimately resolving the build errors after two hours.