Simple, I cloned the repository of ngx-bootstrap and tried to build it locally.
To execute npm install to took me about 4 hours (because of the infinite problems which I get)
after a huge effort, I managed to install the packages.
then comes the next step npm run build here I faced with the following problem
Building collapse module
Error: Command failed: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /q /s /c "npm run dist-to-modules"
'cp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I understand that the cp is Linux based command and it will not work in windows, I tried to change to play with the command in the script section in the package.json but without luck, it did not work.
my question is, if somebody wants to build ngx-bootstrap on Windows, why there is no guide for them to do that, why it is only for Linux?
how should I change the following command
"dist-to-modules": "cp -R ./dist/. ./node_modules/ngx-bootstrap"
to make it work on windows?
I am really frustrated, building a library should not be such a hard task
You have to use copy instead of cp. Just update the script.
Oh yes, we had an issue with the Windows build, and, Barry helped with that :)
Gonna be fixed in 6.1.0 version, which will be released in a few weeks, I think, or, earlier
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Background:
Dear Stackoverflow community. I recently switched from Windows to MacOS and am at a loss how to configure environment variables. Many of the previous questions asked here are about bash instead of zsh.
Goal:
I am trying to install an npm package globally. For instance:
npm install -g vercel
or any other package, and use it in my Visual Studio Code terminal (also zsh). If I want to deploy code I have to use 'npx vercel deploy' every time. I want to be able to use "vercel deploy" but instead I get:
zsh: command not found: vercel
What I tried so far:
Installing the package in zsh and visual studio code terminals (didn't work)
Setting the path equal on both VS and terminal: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
I learned that you need to add environment variabels to a .zshrc file. I don't seem to have a zshrc file. When I do:
sudo ~/.zshrc
Password: XXXXXX
sudo: /Users/vincent/.zshrc: command not found
I am getting another error.
I read in the zsh man file that you should use $HOME/.zshrc instead. Again I am getting the same errors:
vincent#Vincents-MacBook-Air-2 ~ % $HOME/.zshrc
zsh: permission denied: /Users/vincent/.zshrc
vincent#Vincents-MacBook-Air-2 ~ % sudo $HOME/.zshrc
sudo: /Users/vincent/.zshrc: command not found
Update 1:
#slebetman Thank you for your explanation. When I open the terminal I go to home via "cd $HOME" which puts me in in the home directory. However there is no way for me to create a .zshrc file in that directory. Neither via touch or vs code. I am getting the following error: "Unable to write file '/home/.zshrc' (Unknown (FileSystemError): Error: ENOTSUP: operation not supported on socket, open '/home/.zshrc')"
Update 2:
I did manage to find the .zshrc file in visual studio code under /etc. I hope this will work. I was able to overwrite the file with Sudo and add environment variables to it.
Add this to the file .zshrc file under /etc and force overwrite it:
export vercel=/Users/vincent/.npm-global/bin/vercel
Screenshots below for those who will try in the future:
Image with .zshrc file layout
Final remarks:
I don't understand how it is so difficult to add environment variables on Mac while everything else is so easy.
I have read many different questions on stackoverflow, and I can't seem to solve it. Also since I am a newbie I am not allowed to comment on there so I post here in the hope that anyone can help me :)
Best,
Vincent
Note that when you do:
npx vercel deploy
Npm will execute vercel for you without installing it. It does that by temporarily downloading vercel. If you want to run vercel directly without using npx then simply don't use npx. Install it instead:
npm install -g vercel
The -g flag installs the module globally and if the module has a CLI it will be available globally as well (note that depending on your setup you may need admin/sudo privileges to use the -g flag). Now you can run vercel by simply typing:
vercel deploy
This works in all operating systems supported by node.js and npm. That means you can even do this in Windows. In fact I use npm to distribute my tools in a simple cross-platform way so I don't have to support multiple package managers like chocolatey (Windows), homebrew (Mac OS), deb (Debian based distros), rpm (Redhat based distros) etc. (npm does not require your software to be written in node.js - I have published packages on npm written in tcl and bash).
I would really appreciate help with this.
I have cygwin installed and set up to use the PATH from windows. This has been working great for a ton of node development, but I've recently run into an issue where when I run
yarn jest --watch
I get the following error:
--watch is not supported without git/hg, please use --watchAll
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
I have installed git and node in windows.
I have found a workaround of using the Command Prompt for running the tests, but would really like to be in one environment.
--watch works only for git repositories.
if you still have issue it is yarn issue npm gives the same error too. delete your node_modules folder, update yarn or npm to the latest version, then reinstall all the packages again.
After some consideration, I thought my workaround could be a valid answer to this question. Although, I would still like to get this working properly in Cygwin.
If you have node and git installed in windows then you can go into the Command Prompt and run yarn test --watch or npm run test -- --watch to accomplish the same thing.
I know it's been a long time. But i was facing the same issue and what resolved it for me was, to change the default terminal of whatever editor you're using to GIT command line. I was using VS Code and changing the terminal to GIT worked like a charm.
Make sure you're running it in a Git repo (initialised with git init). Otherwise it doesn't know how to get only the changed files.
If you don't want to run tests only on changed files, you can use --watchAll, which runs all the tests.
I also encountered this problem, the reason is that I use the mv command to move the project folder, however the command was not removed .git has points such as the beginning of the file
npm run test -- watchAll
Please use watchAll to serve it in a continue way. It will track your changes and re-run the test automatically.
git init
solves the problem, that way it knows the changed files
I am running Windows 8.1 with node version 7.7.3 and npm version 4.1.2.
I have been working on an Angular tutorial without issues. At some point since finishing that tutorial I installed Python. I am not sure if it is related, but I have mentioned it just in case.
Today I am trying to create an Angular application and it hung without completing.
I did some research and it tells me to do this:
npm uninstall -g #angluar/cli
npm cache clean
npm install -g #angular/cli
The last command hangs at this point:
loadRequestedDeps: silly install loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree
I opened the command prompt "run as administrator" to run these commands.
Everything I try fails. I have connected to a completely different network to eliminate that as the problem and that didn't fix anything. I have uninstalled and reinstalled node.js and that hasn't fixed the problem either.
I can ping registry.npmjs.org just fine.
What is causing this error?
I finally found the answer! I ran the following command in the command window:
echo %temp%
It had 3 temp paths in there. I removed the two I didn't need and voila, it works!
I've installed nodejs, and have used npm to install grunt using
npm install grunt
When I try to run grunt, I am presented with what appears to be instructions on running node commands: (see image)
the same applies when trying to run gulp
I have done the same steps on other computers, and had no problem running grunt previously
Please suggest ideas as to what's going on.
Thanks
As suggested by Joe Clay, the problem was that there was another app called node.exe whose pathwas in PATH variable before nodejs.
see also:
Nodejs seems to be not working; npm do work, however
I've been trying to install Semantic via NPM for a while now and am having problems. I run npm install semantic-ui and it goes through the setup process. However, it stops at Finished 'install' after 3.61 s and never exits the process. If I manually cancel the process and navigate to the semantic folder and run gulp build I'm told there's no local gulp found. So I run npm install gulp just for fun. It installs and I run gulp build again but all of the gulp dependencies are missing.
Any ideas? It's getting frustrating because I've been tinkering with it for a few hours instead of getting to work on the actual project. Running npm install in the semantic directory or my project directory doesn't work either. Thanks for the help!
EDIT: I tried creating a new Ubuntu VM and installing Semantic the same way I was on my Mac. It worked with no problems leading me to believe it's something to do with my configuration on my Mac.
This is really odd, but after I got to the Finished 'install' step, nothing was happening. Just a solid cursor when the node deps should've been installing. I decided to hit return just to see if anything would happen and that seems to have done it. Hitting return gives me the spinning cursor and the deps install. I can successfully run gulp build after that. Weird.