The solution was quite easy though. If found sooner

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rm -rf package-lock.json

rm -rf node_modules



npm install

That’s it. That did it. Before that I was lost in errors with no clue. Following were the errors that I was getting.

Error 1: fibers@4.0.1

Error 2: node-gyp error

Error 3: “Make Failed with Exit Code 2” Error

Note: I had to then later use node 16 (nvm use 16) In order to make the npm run watch-poll work but yes, it’s all working now. This was because node not supporting something old in their latest version. No real threat.

To set that as a high priority run the following

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sudo renice -n -10 14394

I read somewhere that mac assigns process from -10 to 10. So should be nice to be within those bounds.

Renice is to be run second time but it worked for me. Read more here.

Sometimes it is necessary to manually turn off a PHP version. sphp alone does not do the job. Here’s how to do it.

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brew unlink php@8.1

Switching the versions when we have a different homebrew PHP tap!

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brew link --overwrite --force shivammathur/php/php@8.0