Node.js version 22.5 is broken

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Today I started seeing build issues with my Static Site, specifically:

/bin/sh: 1: react-scripts: not found

and then when I tried working around that with npx react-scripts:

npm error could not determine executable to run

Turns out the new default Node version, 22.5.0, has a bug: Node 22.5.0 started to crash and hangs on different cases · Issue #53902 · nodejs/node · GitHub

I was able to fix this by setting NODE_VERSION to 22.4.1 in my project’s environment variables. Posting here in hopes the Render team will roll back to 22.4.1 until the issue with 22.5.0 is patched.

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Hi there,

Render will use the version of NodeJS you specify: https://docs.render.com/node-version. If you don’t specify a version, our default is 20.15.1. How we detected the NodeJS version should be listed in your build logs.

Regards,

Keith
Render Support, UTC+10 :australia:

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Got it. I was confused because I hadn’t made any configuration changes and yet my app suddenly stopped building on Render. Turns out I had this in my package.json, so as soon as Node 22.5 became available on Render, the bug affected my build.

"engines": {
    "node": ">=16.15.1"
  },
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Anyway, a fixed version 22.5.1 is out and available on Render, so this issue can be closed.

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