The engine "node" is incompatible with this module

Question

You can try to ignore the engines :

$ yarn install --ignore-engines

OR

$ yarn global add <your app> --ignore-engines

You can see all what you can ignore by running:

$ yarn help | grep -- --ignore

--ignore-scripts     don't run lifecycle scripts
--ignore-platform    ignore platform checks
--ignore-engines     ignore engines check
--ignore-optional    ignore optional dependencies

You need to upgrade your version of node.

I ran into this same issue.

If you used Homebrew run:

brew update  # This updates Homebrew to latest version
brew upgrade node

If you use nvm run:

nvm current node -v  # Checks your current version
nvm install <version>  # Example: nvm install 12.14.1

For the above step go to https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Grab a version which satisfies the conditionals in your error, the latest version should work.

More Detailed Walkthrough: https://flaviocopes.com/how-to-update-node/

A fix that is a hack can be

yarn config set ignore-engines true

However if you want a permanent solution is to :

1. delete node_modules/, package-lock.json & yarn.lock
2. run yarn install or npm i again.

Add --ignore-engines to the suffix while installing the package like this:

yarn add <package_name> --ignore-engines

My problem was solved with yarn --ignore-engines, but I'm not sure why and how.

I had a similar issue on Ubuntu even after installing Nodejs many times with the latest version, it was showing always the same old Nodejs version; I discovered it was installing the similar old Debian package each time, even after executing the apt-get update command

Finally, I got it to work by purging the old nodeJs then adding different repository source, and installing nodeJs normally with the new distribution as follows:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Please find the list of all NodeJs distribution below https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md

You may find other ways of doing the update, but this one worked for me.

sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n 10.22.1
node -v => Should be on 10.22.1

type what version of node you require as I have just put 10.22.1 as an example