Please Add Support for NodeJS 16

[iamderrick]

NodeJS 16 entered active long-term support very recently. Can you please add this runtime to the codebuild images?

[koooge]

👍

workaround

phases:
  install:
    runtime-versions:
      nodejs: 14
    commands:
      - n 16

[nhaynes]

If the images use version managers under the hood, why limit the number of available runtime versions to a static set? Couldn't these images just be updated to pass specific versions on to the underlying version managers?

I imagine this could even be backwards compatible with the existing implementation and require a lot less ongoing maintenance of this repository. And a lot fewer workarounds from CodeBuild users.

Specific versions like this would pass straight thru to the nodejs n version manager:

phases:
  install:
    runtime-versions:
      nodejs: 16.13.1

and the image could still provide "supported" versions like 12, 14, 16:

phases:
  install:
    runtime-versions:
      nodejs: 14

[spencerbeggs]

Just wanted to chime in and mention that I was able to use @koooge workaround to install a specific version of Node.js using CDK. You can see the relevant code in my template repo. Thank you!

[chunyang-sph]

waiting for support nodejs version 17

[critesjm]

bump! 16 has been in LTS for a while now...

[wilhen01]

Bump. Would be really good to have this...

[Chase-Dickerson]

They're getting closer, it seems. NodeJS 16 runtime is now supported for Lambdas. However, it is not yet available for codebuild.

[zoellner]

FYI, this seems to work now. docs still not updated but I tried it just now:

  install:
    runtime-versions:
      nodejs: 16

[Container] 2022/05/23 14:01:37 No commands found for phase name: install
--
7 | [Container] 2022/05/23 14:01:37 Processing environment variables
8 | [Container] 2022/05/23 14:01:37 Selecting 'nodejs' runtime version '16' based on manual selections...
9 | [Container] 2022/05/23 14:01:37 Running command echo "Installing Node.js version 16 ..."
10 | Installing Node.js version 16 ...
11 |  
12 | [Container] 2022/05/23 14:01:37 Running command n $NODE_16_VERSION
13 | copying : node/16.15.0
14 | installed : v16.15.0 (with npm 8.5.5)

Edit: don't recommend this yet. it only works sometimes and seems to be random chance if the build server supports it yet or not