Raise the Node.js floor to match the driver it tells you to install - #162
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The Node.js quick start listed 'Node.js 18 or later' as its prerequisite and then ran an unpinned 'npm install mongodb'. The current driver requires Node >=20.19, so a reader on 18 satisfies the documented prerequisite and then fails at install time with an engine error. The same floor was corrected in documentdb/docs; this is the website-owned copy of the same page. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Copilot-Session: f18515db-c52f-4197-aa50-d81359c7c763 Signed-off-by: Guanzhou Song <guanzhou.song@gmail.com>
Two findings from the second review pass, both verified against the shipped image. The Docker troubleshooting list and the getting-started index both told readers to restart with --log-level debug for more detail. The site's own DocumentDB Local page documents that flag as a known issue: the value is validated at startup but does not change what the container logs, and DOCUMENTDB_LOG_LEVEL is the control that works. The advice was also impossible as written for a second reason -- docker restart cannot change a container's arguments or environment. Point at the env var and say the container has to be re-created. The previous round corrected the sample-data claim on the Docker and mongosh guides but left the Python and VS Code guides saying 'if you started with DocumentDB Local sample data'. Neither page's docker run includes --init-data true, so that condition is never true for someone following those pages, and the reader is left unsure whether an empty result is a mistake. State that it is opt-in, as the other two guides now do. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Copilot-Session: f18515db-c52f-4197-aa50-d81359c7c763 Signed-off-by: Guanzhou Song <guanzhou.song@gmail.com>
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The Node.js quick start listed:
as its prerequisite, and then ran an unpinned
npm install mongodb. The current driver requires Node>=20.19, so a reader who satisfies the documented prerequisite fails at install time with an engine error.Found by the second review pass. The same floor was corrected in
documentdb/docs; this is the website-owned copy of the same page, which was missed because the two live in different content layers — the docs repo is cloned at build time, while this page is a TypeScript template literal inarticleService.ts.npm test130 passed ·tsc --noEmitclean.Related
documentdb/docs#72 — the docs-repo half, plus two samples broken by the previous fix round.