Sidekick crashes when using Node 10.6.0, 10.7.0 (on Windows)

[ventsislav-georgiev]

Tell us about the problem

Sidekick starts a CLI child process using the installed Node and communicates with the child process via node's ipc implementation. With the latest version of Node 10.6.0 or 10.7.0, there is a breaking change in the ipc implementation and pre Node 10.6.0 versions cannot receive ipc messages from Node 10.6.0 or 10.7.0 processes.

The issues is reported in other repositories

• Electron: IPC crashes between node 10.6.0 and electron electron/electron#13565
• Node: IPC between Node <= 10.5.0 and Node 10.6.0 crashes nodejs/node#21671

Which platform(s) does the issue occur on?

Windows

Provide the following version numbers that the issue occurs with:

• NativeScript Sidekick Desktop or Sidekick for Visual Studio: any version
• NativeScript CLI: any version
• CLI extension nativescript-cloud: any version
• CLI extension nativescript-starter-kits: any version

Tell us how to recreate the issue in as much detail as possible

Install Node 10.6.0 or 10.7.0 globally and start Sidekick

Does this issue happen every time?

Yes