[v6] Notify user of why CLI fails on older Node versions

[eebirke]

Problem Description

I spent some time trying to figure out why lingui extract wasn't working after upgrading to v6. Running it prints nothing, no errors or status messages.

Finally figured it out when attempting to create a minimal reproduction, which then used NPM instead of Yarn (v1) or Bun:

npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: '@lingui/cli@6.0.1',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '>=22.19.0' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v22.13.1', npm: '11.12.1' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }

After upgrading Node to the latest LTS version it started working again.

Proposed Solution

It might be a good idea to print whatever the error that causes early termination of the CLI instead of failing silently. Additionally it seems like required engine isn't universally warned about (yarn v1 and bun in my case).

Alternatives Considered

Adding info about the minimum required Node version could also just be added to the migration guide or the docs somewhere.

Additional Context

No response

[timofei-iatsenko]

It's a first thing written in the migration guide https://lingui.dev/releases/migration-6#nodejs-version

[eebirke]

It's a first thing written in the migration guide https://lingui.dev/releases/migration-6#nodejs-version

Oops 😬 Skipped over that apparently, my bad.

Still, if one is to install it in a new project and consequently isn't checking the migration guide, this is from the setup guide:

Make sure you have Node.js installed (v20 or higher).

Failing silently doesn't seem ideal either.