python manage.py tailwind start with SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.'

[junwenwaynepeng]

I follow the process in https://django-tailwind.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html on my laptop, running windows 11, and everything goes smoothly. Then, I push it to my github repo and pull on the other device, running ubuntu 22.04. I have reset everything in settings.py. Because I already have a 'theme' app, so I cannot repeat the python manage.py tailwind init, but I carry out other steps. Until the last step, it returns the following error:

python manage.py tailwind start

[email protected] start
npm run dev

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cross-env NODE_ENV=development tailwindcss --postcss -i ./src/styles.css -o ../static/css/dist/styles.css -w

/home/r409/projects/SeeNetwork/theme/static_src/node_modules/yaml/dist/compose/composer.js:33
if (prelude[i + 1]?.[0] !== '#')
^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.'
at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:915:16)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:963:27)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
at Object. (/home/r409/projects/SeeNetwork/theme/static_src/node_modules/yaml/dist/index.js:3:16)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:999:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)

[Valgueiro]

I had this problem when running with node 12.x. When I changed to a newer version (20) it worked as expected

[junwenwaynepeng]

Yes. After I googled it for a couple of days. I realized it is not Django-tailwind's problem. However, my error was not vanishing after I upgraded to the latest version of node. Interestingly, it worked on Windows, but failed on Ubuntu. Usually, it was the other way. I suggested the authors to write a troubleshooting for this issue, because it seems like a common problem, and will make users who are not familiar with node.js (like me) misunderstand the problem is from Django-tailwind.