set --no-experimental-strip-types node option (#57226)

.github/workflows/headless-tests.yml

@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run Playwright tests
         env:
           PLAYWRIGHT_WORKERS: ${{ fromJSON('[1, 4]')[github.repository == 'github/docs-internal'] }}
+          # workaround for https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/59364 as of 22.18.0
+          NODE_OPTIONS: '--no-experimental-strip-types'
+
         # Run playwright rendering tests and a11y tests (axe scans) as distinct checks
         # so that we can run them without blocking merges until we can be confident
         # results for a11y tests are meaningul and scenarios we're testing are correct.

.github/workflows/local-dev.yml

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ jobs:
           # by default failures are marked as "flaky" instead of "failed".
           PLAYWRIGHT_RETRIES: 0
           TEST_EARLY_ACCESS: ${{ github.repository == 'github/docs-internal' }}
+          # workaround for https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/59364 as of 22.18.0
+          NODE_OPTIONS: '--no-experimental-strip-types'
         run: npm run playwright-test -- playwright-local-dev
 
       - name: Start server in the background

Dockerfile

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ FROM ghcr.io/github/gh-base-image/gh-base-noble:20250805-204228-g50c20871f AS ba
 # Must run as root
 RUN apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq install --no-install-recommends curl git \
   && curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | bash - \
-  && apt-get install -y nodejs=22.17.0-1nodesource1 \
+  && apt-get install -y nodejs \
   && node --version
 
 # Create the node user and home directory

package-lock.json

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
         "website-scraper": "^5.3.1"
       },
       "engines": {
-        "node": "^20 || >=22.0.0 <22.18.0"
+        "node": "^20 || ^22"
       },
       "optionalDependencies": {
         "esm": "^3.2.25"

package.json

@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
     "esm": "^3.2.25"
   },
   "engines": {
-    "node": "^20 || >=22.0.0 <22.18.0"
+    "node": "^20 || ^22"
   },
   "cacheDirectories": [
     "node_modules",