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Discussion on: How do you make your old MacBook work?

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Sylvie Fiquet

Sorry I can't be much help. I tend to run npm processes sequentially and it's been years since I last used XCode. As far as I can tell XCode is a lot worse than VSCode in terms of RAM requirements.

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Fyodor

Exactly. Thinking about delegating all the Xcode stuff to iMac

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Sylvie Fiquet

It would probably make your life easier.

Concerning multiple npm processes, after a good night's sleep I remembered that I used to run a (small) MongoDB database, an Express server and a React client concurrently without problems.