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Does anyone know if you can do SuiteCommerce Development on a Mac with the M-style chip yet?

Just tried and npm install still won't work :confused: I remember previously receiving an error message about MacOS not being supported, but couldn't find that error message this time

It definitely works on Macs that have Intel chips. As for the new CPUs, can’t say I know the answer to that but I will ask

<@U04PH2CQE3B> I have been working with M1 for one and a half year and you definitely can, probably you might need to play with x-code and rosetta for some stuff, at the beginning I had to google a lot but it seems now that is more stable.

However I recently started working on M2 and I'm dealing to run locally a project with Manor theme, it is related to the `node-sass` dependency, I have not figure it out yet. The error is on extensions related to the extras.

Our dev said that he’s not seen any cases where problems with developer tools were because of the M chips, and, if there were, it would more likely be handled by the library maintainers themselves (eg NodeJS).

I second that, the problems will arise for unsupported ARM Architecture from different libraries.

I think I recall that node-sass was the library that I definitely had issues with :confused: Might just have to dig into it or just continue using my windows computer lol

in M1 that is working great, issues for now are only for M2.

There was a bug on M1 chips for older node-sass libraries. I ended up going up a version to get around it. I use NVM with a .nvmrc file for each project that I work on. The bug was on node 12, iirc.

Finally took the time to figure out the development on mac thing. Yeah it was literally just upgrading node-sass to 8.0.0 :slightly_smiling_face:

Hey <@U04PH2CQE3B> Are you using M1 or M2?

Thanks! I did not have to do that in M1 but in M2 it is not working.

<@U04PH2CQE3B> quick question, what version of node.js are you using? Did you also do anything with the python path/version?

14.19.0 and I didn’t do anything with my python path or version I don’t think :thinking_face: at least not today I suppose there’s a chance I tried to do this forever ago

Python is v3.?? Want to say 3.1