[hot_gril]

I've never used anything but vanilla Python venvs, and no they don't work reliably. What does is a Docker container. I keep hearing excuses for it, but the prevalence of Dockerfiles in GitHub Python projects says it all. This is somehow way less of an issue in NodeJS, maybe because local environments were always the default way to install things.

[neuronexmachina]

> This is somehow way less of an issue in NodeJS, maybe because local environments were always the default way to install things.

There's also NodeJS's ability for dependencies to simultaneously use conflicting sub-dependencies.

[hot_gril]

Yeah, you can't have two deps use different versions of the same sub-dep, cause they flatten everything instead of having a tree. In practice I rarely have issues with this except in React-Native, where it's a common problem, but then again RN is doing some crazy stuff to begin with. Often just force install deps and things work anyway.

Side note, there are way too many React/React-Native "router" type packages, and at least one of them breaks its entire API every update (I think https://reactrouter.com/en/main/upgrading/v5, how are they on version 6 of this). It's so bad that you can't even Google things anymore cause of the naming conflicts.