From 9574c7c2d83dea367452db5a49783328f1b26705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Sese <734194+rsese@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:35:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] set `--no-experimental-strip-types` node option (#57226)

---
 .github/workflows/headless-tests.yml | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/local-dev.yml      | 2 ++
 Dockerfile                           | 2 +-
 package-lock.json                    | 2 +-
 package.json                         | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/headless-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/headless-tests.yml
index 01d35526fb..5c1ced60b3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/headless-tests.yml
+++ b/.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.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/local-dev.yml b/.github/workflows/local-dev.yml
index e706c212b1..55acf15eaf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/local-dev.yml
+++ b/.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
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 4fdcedbace..5a8c618aae 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/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
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c18dccfcee..a56d076799 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/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"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4ef3a13984..675f556ac2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/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",