Ansible - using npm with a proxy - npm

I have this Ansible code:
- name: Installing project files
shell: |
cd /opt/ewd-server
npm install
become_user: prod-{{SITE}}
Every time I run the code and it reaches that part it keeps saying that the server doesn't have the proxy up. Even thought I executed 2 commands before that:
npm config set https-proxy
npm config set proxy
The values are actually the companies IP's, but redacted for obvious reasons.
The code keeps running until it reaches the 'npm install' task, stays for about half an hour, then Ansible gives the error 'ENOENT'.
NOTE: when I run the npm install command in the server without Ansible it works.
If anyone knows any replacement for npm that works with Ansible, or a solution for this issue please help.

Try configuring the environment variables 'http_proxy' and 'https_proxy':
- name: Installing project files, using a specific proxy
shell: |
cd /opt/ewd-server
npm install
become_user: prod-{{SITE}}
environment:
http_proxy: http://proxy.adres
https_proxy: http://proxy.adres
Of course, edit the proxy values.

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Self-hosted GitLab Runner with shell executor can’t find npm

I’m configuring a very simple CI job. GitLab Runner is running on my own server, the specific runner for this project has been registered, with the shell executor, as I want to simply run shell commands.
stages:
- build
build:
stage: build
script:
- npm install
- npm run build
artifacts:
paths:
- "public/dist/main.js"
only:
- master
The job fails at the first command, npm install, with npm: command not found. I just installed npm and node via npm. If I SSH on my server and run npm -v, I can see version 8.5.5 is installed. If I sudo su gitlab-runner, which I suppose is what GitLab Runner is running as, npm -v works just as well.
I installed npm while gitlab-runner was already running. So I ran service gitlab-runner restart, thinking that it had to reevaluate its PATH, but it didn’t fix the issue.
I fixed it by simply adding this command before npm install: . ~/.bashrc.
I’m not sure why gitlab-runner didn’t properly read .bashrc before, even though I restarted it. Maybe it’s not supposed to? That would be contrary to what’s said in the GitLab CI runners docs.
N.B.: A key element in me being able to debug this was to clone the repo on a folder on my server, cd into it, and run gitlab-runner exec shell build after any (local) change to .gitlab-ci.yml. Skipping the whole commit + push + wait was a huge time (and sanity) saver.

Vagrant VirtualBox Local Dev Env, Ubuntu, Yarn, Vue CLI 3 - Issues

I am trying to setup a local development environment consisting of:
Ubuntu server vagrant box
My existing vuejs project created using Vue CLI 3 and passed to vagrant via synced_folder
Then run yarn run serve and access this on my host using port forwarding on the vagrant box.
Background:
I have developed a vue CLI 3 project on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop which is working well, however, I want to move this inside of a vagrant box to keep my local machine tidy. I currently use yarn run serve which works well. I want to be able to run this command inside a new vagrant development environment.
Summary of Problems/Issues:
the vue command is not found after installing its dependencies
permission issues spat out by yarn when attempting to run yarn run serve inside vagrant box
there is an fsevents#1.2.4 message when yarn global add #vue/cli
Provisioning the local dev environment:
The Vagrantfile:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.define "webserver_dev" do |webserver_dev|
webserver_dev.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
webserver_dev.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
webserver_dev.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8888
webserver_dev.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8080, host: 8080
webserver_dev.vm.hostname = "develop.dev"
webserver_dev.vm.synced_folder ".", "/var/www", :mount_options => ["dmode=777", "fmode=666"]
webserver_dev.ssh.forward_agent = true
webserver_dev.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.memory = "1824"
vb.cpus = "2"
end
end
end
Provisioning of the vagrant box: ubuntu/xenial64 (virtualbox, 20180802.0.0):
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev -y
# install node and npm:
cd ~
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
# install yarn
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
# Show installed versions
yarn -v (outputs 1.9.4)
node -v (outputs v10.9.0)
npm -v (outputs 6.2.0)
Problems/Issues Output:
When I navigate to my existing vue project folder and run yarn run serve inside vagrant ssh I get the following error:
yarn run v1.9.4
$ vue-cli-service serve
/bin/sh: 1: vue-cli-service: Permission denied
error Command failed with exit code 126.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
When I run sudo yarn run serve
(I shouldn't have to run this as root anyway but:)
yarn run v1.9.4
$ vue-cli-service serve
/bin/sh: 1: vue-cli-service: Permission denied
error Command failed with exit code 126.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
Running vue --version
vagrant#cc:~$ vue --version
No command 'vue' found, did you mean:
Command 'vpe' from package 'texlive-latex-extra' (universe)
vue: command not found
Output from running yarn global add #vue/cli
As shown in the official vue-cli installation documentation
NOTE: The fsevents#1.2.4 message I get. Could this what is causing the problems?
vagrant#cu:~$ yarn global add #vue/cli
yarn global v1.9.4
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 0/617(node:7694) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
info fsevents#1.2.4: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "fsevents#1.2.4" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
success Installed "#vue/cli#3.0.1" with binaries:
- vue
Done in 58.25s.
Summary:
Has anyone out there achieved a local development environment where they are successfully able to run yarn run serve inside it and access the result on their host machine?
I would be very interested to see how other developers approach their local development for vue js projects which also have other services requiring reverse proxys (eg node js app running on a different port).
I have spent an awful lot of time trying to set this up to no avail. Maybe these tools just don't play well together. If you think you could help I would be very grateful. Thanks
Temporary Workaround: - inspired by this post
After further troubleshooting I found the problem is certainly a permissions related issue (not related to vue-cli).
I think that as my vagrant is using virtualbox, there is a virtualbox issue with symbolic links from the synced folder from my host, which may change permissions and stops chmod command from having any effect on files. In my case the execute flag from node_modules/.bin directory was not-executable.
For anyone with similar issues here is my current workaround to this issue (Do yourself a favour and read https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/713 I wish I'd found it earlier!):
1) copy the projects package.json to: the yarn global directory: /home/vagrant/.config/yarn/global/
cp /var/www/project/package.json /home/vagrant/.config/yarn/global/
2) Install the projects dependencies globally in the yarn users directory:
cd /home/vagrant/.config/yarn/global
yarn install
3) Now returning to the project and running yarn run serve works as it uses the node_modules from /home/vagrant/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin/ which has the correct executable permissions.
cd /var/www/project/package.json
yarn run serve
Example of cause of the issue:
1) Change directory to your project and ls -l to see permissions:
cd /var/www/project/node_modules/.bin
ls -la
Outputs:
lrw-rw-rw- 1 vagrant vagrant 18 Aug 29 00:21 which -> ../which/bin/which
2) Attempt to make file executable:
chmod 777 ./which (adding sudo doesn't make this work either)
Outputs:
lrw-rw-rw- 1 vagrant vagrant 18 Aug 29 00:21 which -> ../which/bin/which
OLD ANSWER - DIDN'T WORK: The solution I am now using is taken from here: Source
Adding this to the Vagrantfile enables symbolic links to work properly.
I am using ubuntu on my host and guest machines so can't be sure this will work for Mac and Windows.
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
v.customize ["setextradata", :id, "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/vagrant", "1"]
end
Further Reading:
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/713
You need to use sudo when installing vue-cli.
The vue-cli documentation at https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/installation.html states that:
To install the new package, use one of the following commands. You
need administrator privileges to execute these unless npm was
installed on your system through a Node.js version manager (e.g. n or
nvm).
npm install -g #vue/cli
# OR
yarn global add #vue/cli

NPM not installing devDependencies on bitbucket pipeline?

I'm trying to setup my first Bitbucket pipeline which simply builds my application and deploys it to my FTP server using the following bitbucket-pipelines.yml
image: node:6.9.4
pipelines:
default:
- step:
caches:
- node
script:
- npm install
- npm test
- step:
script:
- npm run build
- node deploy.js
The issue lies in the npm install because when bitbucket tries to run the npm run build command it says that rimraf (a npm package) is not found. rimraf however is listed in my devDependencies, all regular dependencies in my package.json are downloaded correctly.
There is no global variable set by my so the NODE_ENV could not be it right?
I had the same issue with gulp.
Gulp was in devDependencies and also specified in package.json as script but still it said npm ERR! missing script: gulp
The documentation says to install it globally, so there might be a related issue with your package.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/javascript-node-js-with-bitbucket-pipelines-873891287.html
I had this same issue. For me, the problem was that the version of Node on my local development device was different from the version of Node in the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file.
To fix it, I went into bitbucket-pipelines.yml and changed this line:
image: node:10.15.3
to this:
image: node:14.15.0

NPM not available when running installation script

I have an interesting issue, I have a setup or rails project and the deployment/upgrades works absolutely fine when running as a dedicated user (deploy) who is used to setup everything.
I am using codeDeploy to manage the deployments and it uses root user to do the deployment on AWS, but during the deployment it fails on running the same script because it's not able to find npm command
cd client && npm run build:client
sh: 1: npm: not found
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (127): [cd client && npm run build:client...]
If i run it manually to check that i also get nothing
root#ip-172-31-4-141:/home/ubuntu# su deploy -c "which npm"
root#ip-172-31-4-141:/home/ubuntu#
NPM is available via the deploy user but I am struggling to understand why it's not available via the root user
deploy#ip-172-31-4-141:/home/ubuntu$ which npm
/home/deploy/.nvm/versions/node/v7.8.0/bin/npm
Any help to get this resolved would be great.
Thanks,
The issue here was that AWS CodeDeploy when starts deployment loads only a minimum env; to load all the env variables I have exported the env and then in the deploy phase source that file, which resolves my issue

npm 3.10.10 install socket hang up error

I am using Node 6.10.1 and npm 3.10.10 on a Dell XPS 15 running Ubuntu 16.04 with Kernel 4.13.0.0-36-generic.
I am behind a corporate proxy which is configured through cntlm.
When I run an npm install -d on a project It works from a short time, and after a while I get Error: socket hang up.
I have found numerous questions about my problem but no solution seemed to work.
Here is an extract of a npm config list :
; cli configs
user-agent = "npm/3.10.10 node/v6.10.1 linux x64"
; userconfig /home/msb/.npmrc
https-proxy = "http://localhost:3128/"
registry = "http://urlTocorporateRegistryWhichWorksOnOtherComputers"
strict-ssl = false
; node bin location = /home/msb/.nvm/versions/node/v6.10.1/bin/node
; cwd = /home/msb
; HOME = /home/msb
; "npm config ls -l" to show all defaults.
I cannot change the registry since we are using some internal modules, and I have to keep the current versions of node/npm.
I have already tried :
Using the proxy directly in npm config rather than through cntlm
Limiting my upload/download capabilities with trickle through the command trickle -s -d 100 -u 100 npm install -d
Another indication : It works on Windows, and I have a collegue running Ubuntu 17.04 on a slower pc and it works for him. We think my machine might be a bit too brutal when requesting the registry. Does anyone know a way to slow npm requests ?
It used to work through yarn but some new developments have forced me to go back to npm.
Has anyone encountered and corrected this problem ?
Thanks for your help.
I experimented the same problem, with no apparent reason, on Ubuntu 18.04.
I finally used docker with bind mounts to solve it. The steps are the following:
Create a dockerfile with the following elements (you can also directly run with the used image if you don't need to configure a proxy like me)
FROM node:6.10.1
ENV HTTPS_PROXY "http://yourproxy:yourport/"
# Different RUN commands to configure npm and git corporate proxy
WORKDIR /home/root/
Build the image (from the dockerfile's folder): docker image build -f npm-installer/Dockerfile -t custom-npm-installer .
Go inside the project folder where you would normally run npm install
Run the following command to run the container interactively: docker container run -it --network host -v </host/path/to/pj>:/home/root/pj-to-install --name custom-npm-installer custom-npm-installer bash
You can now run the npm install command from the container. Careful however, you'll then need to use chmod on the node_modules folder recursively since the container uses root by default.
Another thing, if you're using node-sass, it is most of the time compiled on the fly when npm installing, and matches your OS current version/architecture. So if your linux distribution is not exactly the same than the container's you might need to recompile node-sass on your host after running npm install on the container. No worries though, node-sass will give you the command to run the moment you launch your application.