volta respects engines property of package.json

[barinbritva]

Now volta creates own property volta and uses only it. It would be extremely convenient if volta have a look for volta prop first and if it's not found it looks for engines prop.

A few points:

• In most cases it's enough to specify only major version in engines prop of a tool instead of major.minor.fix, like node: ^16. But if a user needs to define a specific version he can do in using volta prop. In the first case we don't need to duplicate the info about tool version.
• In some cases a user can use volta to work with a project, but other team mates don't. In this case commiting volta prop to package.json is redundant and might be declined on a code review

[mufasa71]

This sounds as an good idea on first sense, but will lead to a breaking changes and unexpected behaviour for users who already using global node for some reason. Second issue with semver of such records, e.b. node: ^16 may not work with volta, as it expects exact version

[Moshyfawn]

While there were a couple of discussions about the usage of the engines field (#355, for example), in the latest Node versions there's an experimental corepack tool Volta can leverage for setting and referring to the current package manager and its version.

[kenny-reyes]

This sounds as an good idea on first sense, but will lead to a breaking changes and unexpected behaviour for users who already using global node for some reason. Second issue with semver of such records, e.b. node: ^16 may not work with volta, as it expects exact version

This have a very easy solution, if volta find the volta json configuration node, volta will give priority to that configuration.

As I said, It's a shame that you're not considering the proposal, it would be a great addition to Volta. I love Volta, and whenever I manage a project, I always add Volta configuration to my package.json. However, when I collaborate on a project, they usually don't want anything unofficial added to the package.json configuration, so most of the time, I can't use Volta.