Fixing Node Library Not Loaded icu4c Error

Recently I sat down at my mac to start working on one of my React apps and when I tried to run yarn start I got the following error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.61.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/opt/node@8/bin/node
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

The error message mentioned node so I tried to run node -v and got the same error so I knew I'd narrowed the problem down to node and some dependency named icu4c. As with most computer-related issues, I figured a re-install might be the quickest path to fixing things, and sure enough it did:

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies node
brew install node

Notice I included the --ignore-dependencies flag on the uninstall because yarn depends on node and brew won't let me uninstall without passing that flag. It's not a problem though since I'm installing node again on the next line.

And now I can yarn start my react project and get back to development.

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