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by miki123211 633 days ago
> You can use old node in backend as much as you please.

Not really, or at least not always.

I once tried to run some old Node project on Apple Silicon. It relied on some package that wanted to download binaries, but that ancient version didn't support Apple Silicon yet. Upgrading the package to an Apple Silicon supporting version required updating half of the other dependencies, and that broke everything. Eventually, I just gave up.