Facing error on installation of Strapi . " Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module"

[graeme]

I had an issue with Macbook M1 and sharp, here was my workaround so I can use node 18 and a recent strapi (in case pple still searching)

Strapi does not run on Mac M1

I had this issue, but I needed node 18 for other npm packages I wanted to use. Here’s how i got it working on (bit of a hack for M1): Like you say, using node 14 works on Mac M1…so I did that first - I used node 14.17.4 and npm installed on a project running strapi 4.4.3 then i copied the sharp folder from node_modules which will be used later next, I switch to node 18.6.0 and upgrade strapi to 4.11.4, and install packages with npm install --legacy-peer-deps (without legacy-peer-deps s…