Node.js 12.16.1 LTS in Flex Environment

[Christopher Russell]

According to https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/nodejs/runtime I should be able to dial in my required Node.js version for Flex Environment Cloud Build quite easily by setting `engines` semver constraint in package.json.

However, this doesn't seem to work.

No matter what I do in Flex all I get is Node.js 10.13.0 (Oct 2018) and breaks if I try to constrain this via package.json `engines`.

Very frustrating.

Any advice from the Community?

If I take the time to switch from flex to standard environment does that even work?

It should be dead-easy to get LTS support for Node.js!

[Aref Amiri (Cloud Platform Support)]

By default the engine should be set to the latest LTS release, however, I'd suggest to make sure all components are updated to the latest version and try again. If the issue persists, I'd suggest to create a Public Issue tracker and provide the error message, and this can be investigated further.

In regards to App engine Standard, more information can be found here. There are certain limitations in terms of updates in comparison to Flex, however, it does support the latest stable release of Node.js.

[Christopher Russell]

Thank you for the reply. Your suggestion was very helpful - indeed there was an upstream problem that was causing the wrong Docker container to get pulled. Once corrected, we're happily building and executing the generated runtime on 12.16.1 LTS Node. Thanks and regards. Chris

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:07 AM 'Aref Amiri (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine <google-a...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

By default the engine should be set to the latest LTS release, however, I'd suggest to make sure all components are updated to the latest version and try again. If the issue persists, I'd suggest to create a Public Issue tracker and provide the error message, and this can be investigated further.

In regards to App engine Standard, more information can be found here. There are certain limitations in terms of updates in comparison to Flex, however, it does support the latest stable release of Node.js.

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