I could not successfully use install npm packages - npm

Question

I'm trying to download some source code and build a software. the README file said it need to use npm tools. like first use npm install, then npm run build, then npm run dev. However, I got stuck when I'm trying to use npm install. I could not successfully install npm packages.
Below are some error messages:
C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Users\michael liu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "C:\Users\michael liu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "/m" switch.
detection.cpp
deviceList.cpp
detection_win.cpp
win_delay_load_hook.cc
..\src\detection_win.cpp(5): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atlstr.h': No such file or directory [C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection\build\detection.vcxproj]
..\src\detection.cpp(60): warning C4996: 'Nan::Callback::Call': was declared deprecated [C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection\build\detection.vcxproj]
C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection\node_modules\nan\nan.h(1740): note: see declaration of 'Nan::Callback::Call'
..\src\detection.cpp(105): warning C4996: 'Nan::Callback::Call': was declared deprecated [C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection\build\detection.vcxproj]
C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection\node_modules\nan\nan.h(1740): note: see declaration of 'Nan::Callback::Call'
..\src\detection.cpp(195): warning C4996: 'Nan::Callback::Call': was declared deprecated [C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection\build\detection.vcxproj]
C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection\node_modules\nan\nan.h(1740): note: see declaration of 'Nan::Callback::Call'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\bin\msbuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Users\michael liu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:258:23)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:240:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17134
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\michael liu\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\michael liu\Desktop\IBSMK\ibsmk\node_modules\usb-detection
gyp ERR! node -v v10.11.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN IBSMK#1.5.5 No repository field.
npm WARN IBSMK#1.5.5 No license field.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#1.2.4 (node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#1.2.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! usb-detection#4.3.0 install: `prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the usb-detection#4.3.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\michael liu\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-07-30T02_53_24_589Z-debug.log

Answer 1

There was a bunch of problems around the time of Node v10 and Electron
v3 wrt it not reporting to node-abi the right ABI version. The
solution seemed to be "don't use Node v10".
Read this for more explanation