Summary

This issue was raised as a result of this community forum entry.

TLDR:
Some libraries may require special NODE_OPTIONS to be passed, however this is currently not supported with any arguments (for example to the redwood.toml).

Motivation

Support of monero-javascript requires the --no-experimental-fetch flag to be passed in order to work with Node 18 LTS

Detailed proposal

When further testing the workaround described in the forum post, I found it annoying that anytime the @redwoodjs node_module changes, the manual changes become overwritten.

It would be ideal to have some place in the configuration of redwood to pass NODE_OPTIONS to any node process that runs the api side (or web side).

[api]
  port = 8911
  host = "0.0.0.0"
  node_options="--no-experimental-fetch"

I have looked into injecting this flag manually in the devHandler @redwoodjs/cli/dist/commands/devHanlder where --enable-source-maps is passed with NODE_OPTIONS="--enable-source-maps --no-experimental-fetch" but I don't know how to make it persistent across installs of redwoodjs. Also, this only seems to fix the yarn rw dev process, but not a baremetal deploy.

Generally I am interested on implementing this, but I am totally new and would probably need a lot of hand-holding. Let me know!

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