Comment by rpedela

Cant speak for Babel, but the rest of it does not mirror my experience. I have had either no trouble or minor trouble upgrading Node versions. I always hard-code versions for dependencies, and then periodically upgrade which usually takes a few minutes. Once in awhile an API changes, and I have to spend a couple hours (gasp!). You make it sound like upgrading in Node is completely broken, but that doesnt appear to be the case in my experience.