fix: accept supported Node.js prereleases at startup

lib/cli/entry.js

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ module.exports = async (process, validateEngines) => {
 
   // It is now safe to log a warning if they are using a version of node that is not going to fail on syntax errors but is still unsupported and untested and might not work reliably.
   // This is safe to use the logger now which we want since this will show up in the error log too.
-  if (!satisfies(validateEngines.node, validateEngines.engines)) {
+  if (!satisfies(validateEngines.node, validateEngines.engines, { includePrerelease: true })) {
     log.warn('cli', validateEngines.unsupportedMessage)
   }
 

test/lib/cli/entry.js

@@ -150,6 +150,31 @@ t.test('unsupported node version', async t => {
   )
 })
 
+t.test('prerelease node versions', async t => {
+  for (const [version, supported] of [
+    ['v27.0.0-alpha.0.0.0', true],
+    ['v28.0.0-alpha.0.0.0', true],
+    ['v27.0.0-rc.0', true],
+    ['v26.0.0-alpha.0', false],
+    ['v23.0.0-alpha.0', false],
+  ]) {
+    await t.test(version, async t => {
+      const { cli, logs } = await cliMock(t, {
+        globals: {
+          'process.argv': ['node', 'npm', '--version'],
+          'process.version': version,
+        },
+      })
+      await cli(process)
+      if (supported) {
+        t.strictSame(logs.warn, [])
+      } else {
+        t.match(logs.warn[0], `does not support Node.js ${version}.`)
+      }
+    })
+  }
+})
+
 t.test('non-ascii dash', async t => {
   const { cli, logs } = await cliMock(t, {
     globals: {