Issue installing with [email protected]

[OmgImAlexis]

I have "postinstall-build": "^5.0.0", in the dependencies array. I'm using [email protected]. I tried this with yarn instead of npm and was getting more errors. I have [email protected] and [email protected].

➜  twistly-api git:(master) ✗ npm install --production

> [email protected] install /Users/xo/code/twistly-api/node_modules/dtrace-provider
> node scripts/install.js


> [email protected] postinstall /Users/xo/code/twistly-api
> postinstall-build dist

postinstall-build:
  This version of npm (5.0.3) may not be compatible with postinstall-build! There
  are outstanding bugs in certain versions of npm that prevent it from working with
  postinstall-build. See https://github.com/exogen/postinstall-build#bugs-in-npm
  for more information.


> [email protected] install /Users/xo/code/twistly-api/node_modules/fsevents
> node install

[fsevents] Success: "/Users/xo/code/twistly-api/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v57-darwin-x64/fse.node" already installed
Pass --update-binary to reinstall or --build-from-source to recompile

> [email protected] postinstall /Users/xo/code/twistly-api
> postinstall-build dist

sh: postinstall-build: command not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `postinstall-build dist`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall 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!     /Users/xo/.npm/_logs/2017-07-05T05_09_46_247Z-debug.log
postinstall-build:
  Error: Command failed: sh -c "/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.1.3/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js" install --only=dev


npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `postinstall-build dist`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall 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!     /Users/xo/.npm/_logs/2017-07-05T05_09_46_552Z-debug.log

Excerpt from my package.json.

{
    "name": "twistly",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "description": "Twistly",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "clean-dist": "rm -rf dist && mkdir dist",
        "build": "npm run clean-dist && babel ./src -d ./dist -s",
        "lint": "xo",
        "test": "nyc ava test/**/*.spec.js",
        "postinstall": "postinstall-build dist",
        "start": "node MODE=worker ./dist/index.js"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "agenda": "^0.9.1",
        "async": "^1.5.2",
        "bcryptjs": "^2.4.3",
        "body-parser": "^1.15.0",
        "bunyan": "^1.8.10",
        "configstore": "^3.1.0",
        "cross-env": "^4.0.0",
        "dumb-passwords": "^0.2.1",
        "express": "^4.13.4",
        "express-api-error-handler": "^1.1.0",
        "express-healthcheck": "^0.1.0",
        "express-jwt": "^5.1.0",
        "express-session": "^1.15.3",
        "hat": "^0.0.3",
        "http-errors": "^1.6.1",
        "joi": "^10.5.0",
        "jsonwebtoken": "^7.3.0",
        "loud-rejection": "^1.6.0",
        "meow": "^3.7.0",
        "method-override": "^2.3.3",
        "mongoose": "^4.4.6",
        "numeral": "^2.0.6",
        "passport": "^0.3.2",
        "passport-tumblr": "^0.1.2",
        "postinstall-build": "^5.0.0",
        "tumblr.js": "0.0.7"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "ava": "^0.19.1",
        "babel-cli": "^6.24.0",
        "babel-core": "^6.24.0",
        "babel-plugin-stack-trace-sourcemap": "^1.0.2",
        "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.23.0",
        "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.0",
        "babel-preset-stage-2": "^6.22.0",
        "babel-watch": "^2.0.6",
        "coveralls": "^2.13.0",
        "nyc": "^10.2.0",
        "snyk": "1.16.0",
        "supertest": "^3.0.0",
        "xo": "^0.18.2"
    },
    "buildDependencies": {
        "babel-cli": "^6.24.0",
        "babel-core": "^6.24.0",
        "babel-plugin-stack-trace-sourcemap": "^1.0.2",
        "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.23.0",
        "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.0",
        "babel-preset-stage-2": "^6.22.0"
    }
}

[exogen]

Thanks for the report! npm v5 definitely has issues with postinstall-build at the moment; I haven't done enough testing to find all of its failure modes yet. I'll do some testing to see if this is an issue specific to npm v5.

[bilby91]

@OmgImAlexis Did you find a workaround ?

[hamza-hajji]

I would also like to know, it throws me an error with npm 5.6.0, but it works perfectly with yarn