[Bug]: Compatibility Check Error Message with the wrong link (Page Not Found error)

[ahaywood]

What's not working?

If there's a compatibility issue when installing Redwood, the link in the error message goes to the wrong place.

How do we reproduce the bug?

I ran yarn create redwood-app my-successful-app

I ran into a compatibility issue:

When I click on the link, it takes me here: https://redwoodjs.com/docs/tutorial/chapter1/prerequisites%E2%80%8B

which does not exist.

It looks like the printed link is correct, but somehow I zero-width space character %E2%80%8B is tacked on and encoded at the end of the URL.

What's your environment? (If it applies)

No response

Are you interested in working on this?

• I'm interested in working on this

[thedavidprice]

Gah! This explains the massive amount of errors we're getting right now. I vaguely recall running across something like this in the past — it's possible there's something busted between the yarn version reported in the console output and the yarn version (different bin path) that's used for the semver check.

Here's where the semver check code lives:
https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/blob/8913c0558865c30642de92415647c8c93a072307/packages/create-redwood-app/src/create-redwood-app.js#L75C32-L78

Any chance you have time today to help diagnose?

cc @Josh-Walker-GM

[thedavidprice]

Oh, one more thing you can do to help @ahaywood From the parent directory you are attempting to install into (probably /Users/amydutton/Dropbox/1 - PROJECTS/ENDLESS-IDEAS-MACHINE/CODE/) can you check the yarn version and report back?

I feel like this could also be the case where you've installed Yarn 3 globally and our semver check gets messed up.

PS: don't you know that it's a part of developer lore to never put your repos inside Dropbox cause sync fights with git?? 😉

[ahaywood]

😂 Guilty and caught red-handed. I keep thinking, "I'm invincible. Dropbox likes me. It won't give me trouble."

[ahaywood]

Update: Worked with @jtoar

The error message being reported by yarn create redwood-app is wrong: it should be saying “node is too low,” but it says “yarn is too low/high” which isn’t true

If I set Node to v18 and try again it works like a champ.

[jtoar]

I can't reproduce the link being wrong yet in my terminal; here it is in the source:

redwood/packages/create-redwood-app/src/create-redwood-app.js

Line 103 in 8913c05

'https://redwoodjs.com/docs/tutorial/chapter1/prerequisites'

If you copy paste that it's right, so maybe something is going wrong with terminalLink rendering that's specific to your terminal—mind sharing which terminal emulator you're using locally so I could try reproducing?

[jtoar]

Reopening till we get the link sorted out

[ahaywood]

I'm using Hyper

[Josh-Walker-GM]

Sounds similar to sindresorhus/terminal-link#18

[jtoar]

I can reproduce this in hyper, thanks @ahaywood!