gulp issue - gulp error with current cfailing to generate manifest.js

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Disclaimer

Yes

Sample

react-group-teams

Contributor(s)

Alison Collins

What happened?

Couple of issues - first one - latest gulp version gives an error message (ReferenceError: primordials is not defined) - was able to partially resolve this by workarounds involving preinstall scripting and updating graceful-fs dependencies.

However after getting the package to seemingly complete the build process (it didn't actually), while 'gulp serve --nobrowser' did start a server, it failed to produce a manifest file. The only temp packages downloaded were relating to the (now obsolete?) workbench. Have successfully built other V14 packages - this one has issues the others don't. I assume it works fine within the Docker environment (assume it does), however due to security restrictions I can no longer use Docker at my workplace and need to build locally. Tried to activate the package in my developer tenant however 'something went wrong' and the error only reported '[object Object]'.

gulp serve errors.txt

Steps to reproduce

Follow minimal path to awesome.

1. Node version 14.21.3
2. Gulp CLI 3.0.0
   3.Gulp Local 3.9,1

Expected behavior

manifest file to be created by gulp serve --nobrowser so web part can be tested using &debugManifestsFile=https://localhost:4321/temp/manifests.js

Target SharePoint environment

SharePoint Online

Developer environment

Windows

Browsers

• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Google Chrome
• FireFox
• Safari
• mobile (iOS/iPadOS)
• mobile (Android)
• not applicable
• other (enter in the "Additional environment details" area below)

What version of Node.js is currently installed on your workstation?

14.21.3

What version of Node.js is required by the sample?

v14

Paste the results of SPFx doctor

installed m365-cli, can't even log into it - getting an error 'cannot find package 'timers' - googled this error - m365 apparently does not work with node v14 .. which is the version this spfx webpart is made for.

Additional environment details

No response