ASDF

[TheSonOfThomp]

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Replaces our implicit node & pnpm version management with a more explicit tool manager; asdf

Running asdf install ensures all contributors are using the same version of Node & pnpm, which can avoid versioning conflicts.

  brew install asdf;
  asdf install;

Note: the MMS codebase also uses asdf, which would make moving between codebases easier

Don't we already list these versions?

We list Node version in engines, and the pnpm version is already identified twice, in engines and packageManager, so this may seem like a third source of truth.
But asdf install will actually install the correct version, whereas the "engines" attribute will only tell you if you're out of date

Alternatives

An alternative to asdf would be nvm (which many of us already use).
We could set the required node version in a .nvmrc file, which would solve the Node versioning issue.

Ensure you have the correct Node version with nvm install.,

However, installing the correct pnpm version requires another tool; corepack.
This would require contributors to manually enable the tool (corepack enable) and install the correct version corepack install [email protected].
As far as I can tell, there is no version file we can write to that will automatically install corepack dependencies

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[tsck]

I like this and I think bringing it in definitely makes sense. I like that it brings us in line with MMS.

Looks like there's a mismatch in the pnpm versions causing a build error atm though. Might have bump some more in other places.

[bruugey]

Do we need this?