druid-console can't be built on Mac M1

[FrankChen021]

druid-console module can't be built on Mac M1 during installation of Node saying error=86, Bad CPU type in executable

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin:1.11.3:npm (npm-install) on project druid-console: Failed to run task: 'npm ci' failed. java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/Users/frankchen/source/open/druid/web-console/target/node/node" (in directory "/Users/frankchen/source/open/druid/web-console"): error=86, Bad CPU type in executable -> [Help 1]

This is because node 14.19.3 does not ship any release for Mac M1 chip, it installs x86 version on Mac M1.

[INFO] Installing node version v14.19.3
[INFO] Unpacking /Users/frankchen/.m2/repository/com/github/eirslett/node/14.19.3/node-14.19.3-darwin-x64.tar.gz into /Users/frankchen/source/open/druid/web-console/target/node/tmp
[INFO] Copying node binary from /Users/frankchen/source/open/druid/web-console/target/node/tmp/node-v14.19.3-darwin-x64/bin/node to /Users/frankchen/source/open/druid/web-console/target/node/node
[INFO] Installed node locally.

The Node 16.x (another LTS) contains release for Mac M1, see: https://nodejs.org/dist/v16.17.0/
But if we upgrade the node to such version, existing node-sass has also needed to be upgraded from 5.x to at least 6.x because node-sass 5.x fails to build on Node 16. Only node-sass 6.0+ support Node 16.

So, the upgrade becomes complicated, I don't if there any other modules incompatible with Node 16. It's out of ability to do that. So I have to install Rosetta on my Mac M1 to run x86 version of Node 14.

@vogievetsky Do you have any plan to upgrade Node to higher LTS version such as Node 16 so that druid-console can be built directly on Mac M1? If not, I will open a PR to update the dev-doc to let users know how to tackle the above problem that I encounter.

[vogievetsky]

yes, I really want to upgrade to Node 16. The only issue IIRC is something with node-sass as you mentioned which is why we stuck with 14 (when we last looked at it node-sass 6 was not out yet). Is upgrading to node-sass 6 trivial?

[FrankChen021]

I gave up when I found node-sass has to be upgraded.
I'm not familiar with frontend packages and don't know what are these packages are for.

[FrankChen021]

Unfortunately, this problem was not resolved.

I update to the lastest master, and tried to build again, the node-sass still fails to compile. Finally I found the the Mac M1 is still not supported by node-sass(sass/node-sass#3033)

There're some other solution on the internet to suggest using sass to replace node-sass, but since there's sass-loader which is dependent on node-sass, the replacing is still not possible at my local environment.

So, at last, I'm still using rosetta to use x64 version of node and node-sass on my Mac M1.

cc @vogievetsky