Lesson 11: yarn fails on hardhat-starter-kit (node-hid breaks on build)

[mattaereal]

Hi! So I'm adding this in case anyone else is experiencing this issue at the start of lesson 11, while executing yarn in the hardhat-starter-kit folder.

There's a dependency that fails on the latest versions of yarn/node, while trying to compile an older version of node-hid through resolving an optional dependency for Ledger's hw wallet.

Link to the issue, plus a quickfix provided (and also a PR).

[tsuccar]

Hi Matt,
Thank you for the tip, saved me a lot of time. I'm new to JS. May I ask, how you determined source of the issue in your link
Dependency @ledgerheq/hw-transport-node-hid fails on ^4.3.0 version with latest versions of yarn, node, and node-gyp. Please.
I didn't see the connection.

[mattaereal]

In the link above you will find the steps to reproduce and the information to do so :)