fix(nuxt): drop the native test dependency that breaks install on Python 3.12+

.cspell-project-words.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ cweagans
 davidanson
 dbaeumer
 ddev
+demi
 devpod
+distutils
 docroot
 drush
 druxt
@@ -17,6 +19,7 @@ extensionless
 gdlib
 giget
 hverlin
+inbrowser
 instantiator
 intelephense
 interruptible

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ minor is for.
   outright instead of getting the frontend-only fallback the missing-PHP
   case gets. postinstall now screens the version itself and steps aside
   with the version it found; `npm run setup` still fails loudly.
+- `npm install` no longer needs Python. `vue-jest` 3 depends on
+  `deasync`, a native module, so installing the frontend ran
+  `node-gyp`, and the `node-gyp` bundled with Node 16's npm imports
+  `distutils`, which Python 3.12 removed. The documented one-liner died
+  partway through on any machine without `setuptools`, which is the
+  stock state of Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13 and Fedora 40, so the affected
+  group grows rather than shrinks. Nothing at runtime needed it: it was
+  the transform for `.vue` files under test. That is now
+  `@vue/vue2-jest` 29, the maintained package from the same project,
+  matching the installed Jest and building nothing. `deasync` is the
+  only dependency here that needed a compiler, so the frontend install
+  no longer depends on the machine's Python at all, and a test pins the
+  set of packages allowed to run an install script.
 
 ### Dependencies
 

nuxt/jest.config.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module.exports = {
   moduleFileExtensions: ['js', 'vue', 'json'],
   transform: {
     '^.+\\.js$': 'babel-jest',
-    '.*\\.(vue)$': 'vue-jest',
+    '.*\\.(vue)$': '@vue/vue2-jest',
   },
   collectCoverage: true,
   collectCoverageFrom: [