I'm Feeling Thinner Already!
15 engineering hours later, I've migrated my client-side components to Svelte. At least 4 of those hours were due to version mismatches, but I learned something valuable. In package.json npm packages are often listed as "^1.2.3" which means "you may update this package to 1.2.4 or 1.3.0, but you may not update it to 2.0.0." Foolishly, I believed in semver , thinking that the packages for major components would be vetted to prevent breaking changes from occurring. Nope. On a couple of different occasions, my local package was upgraded to another minor version, and it - to put it in the most technical terms possible - broke my shit. The LLMs were no help, because they kept hallucinating Byzantine errors related to misformatted html or "known" bugs for versions I wasn't on. Eventually, one suggested I check for version discrepancies and, voila, the root cause emerged. I've now permanently etched "check for version mismatches almost imme...