Contribution - Setup Error reproductions

[Kinfe123]

reproduction for difficulties faced by those who wanted to contribute from clean slate

[Eazash]

So I'm currently attempting to install dependencies and facing issues with pnpm and node citing client error (ERR_INVALID_THIS)

Reproduction Steps

• Install node 20 (20.11.1 in my case but any version of node 20 should recreate the issue)
• Runcorepack enable
• Run pnpm install
  The error

pnpm install
Scope: all 9 workspace projects
 WARN  Ignoring broken lockfile at /Users/ezra/Projects/OSS/loglib: Lockfile /Users/ezra/Projects/OSS/loglib/pnpm-lock.yaml not compatible with current pnpm
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@clickhouse%2Fclient error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/dotenv error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/kafkajs error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tsx error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@auth%2Fcore error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@libsql%2Fclient error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@paralleldrive%2Fcuid2 error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/drizzle-kit error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/drizzle-orm error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@loglib%2Fdb error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/web-vitals error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/react error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@loglib%2Fconfig error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@clickhouse%2Fclient error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/dotenv error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/kafkajs error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tsx error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@auth%2Fcore error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@libsql%2Fclient error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@paralleldrive%2Fcuid2 error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/drizzle-kit error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/drizzle-orm error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@loglib%2Fdb error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/web-vitals error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/react error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@loglib%2Fconfig error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 1 minute. 1 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@types%2Fnode error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.
 WARN  GET https://registry.npmjs.org/@loglib%2Fconfig error (ERR_INVALID_THIS). Will retry in 10 seconds. 2 retries left.

The issue seems to be stemming from pnpm, node 20 and node-fetch (see pnpm/pnpm#6424). As a temporary workaround, I downgraded to node 18 (18.18.2) and this issue was gone

[Eazash]

The lasting solution to this would be either to

1. upgrade the pnpm version used to at least 8.3.1. However doing that would create issues with pnpm lockfiles being invalid.
2. upgrading to node 20. This however would mean a lot of packages would break and I don't think this can be done without a full upgrade of package versions throughout the multiple workspaces
3. Both 1 and 2, might as well jump off the deep end

As a side note, locking the node version needed on the "engines" field would give users a warning when trying to install packages or run scripts. Let me known which path you'd like to follow and I'm happy to create PRs for those.