`nuxi init` fails with yarn

[polarathene]

This still seems to be problematic.

If you have docker installed the reproduction should help you verify a proper fix going forward? Below is two failing cases and one that is successful with a bit of extra configuration (that nuxi init could configure).

⚡️ Nuxt Generation CLI Experience (nuxi v3.9.0)

Previous issues stating it had been resolved with 3.8:

• https://github.com/nuxt/cli/issues/132#issuecomment-1713712256
• https://github.com/nuxt/cli/issues/121#issuecomment-1713714853

Related issues on yarn support with nuxt:

• https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/22861#issuecomment-1695230306
• https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/15774#issuecomment-1397418341
• https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/14146#issuecomment-1397344543
• https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/11823#issuecomment-1397201450
• https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/19618#issuecomment-1465240679

❌ | Yarn 3.6.3 (defaults to nodeLinker: pnp)

ERROR Error: Command failed with exit code 1: corepack yarn install

# Reproducible nodejs environment:
$ docker run --rm -it --workdir /reproduction node:20-bookworm-slim bash

# Legacy yarn is global default:
$ yarn -v
v1.22.19

# `yarn -v` will match any yarn version specified in the `packageManager` field of `package.json`:
$ corepack enable

# If a `package.json` is not present (or is missing `packageManager` field), this sets the fallback version:
# (_Still requires corepack to have been enabled to be applicable_)
$ corepack prepare yarn@stable --activate

$ yarn -v
3.6.3

# Run `nuxi init` non-interactively via explicit options:
$ yarn dlx nuxi init --packageManager yarn --gitInit false .

➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0032: │ fsevents@npm:2.3.3: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 2s 406ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: │ ESM support for PnP uses the experimental loader API and is therefore experimental
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: Done with warnings in 2s 606ms

◐ Installing dependencies...
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0032: │ fsevents@npm:2.3.3: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0032: │ @parcel/watcher@npm:2.3.0: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0032: │ node-addon-api@npm:7.0.0: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0002: │ nuxt-app@workspace:. doesn't provide vite (p73f11), requested by @nuxt/devtools
➤ YN0000: │ Some peer dependencies are incorrectly met; run yarn explain peer-requirements <hash> for details, where <hash> is the six-letter p-prefixed code
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 6s 967ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0013: │ yaml@npm:2.3.2 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ yargs-parser@npm:21.1.1 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ yargs@npm:17.7.2 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ zhead@npm:2.1.1 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ zip-stream@npm:5.0.1 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 1s 152ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: │ ESM support for PnP uses the experimental loader API and is therefore experimental
➤ YN0007: │ esbuild@npm:0.18.20 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0007: │ esbuild@npm:0.19.3 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0009: │ esbuild@npm:0.18.20 couldn't be built successfully (exit code 1, logs can be found here: /tmp/xfs-797ad338/build.log)
➤ YN0009: │ esbuild@npm:0.19.3 couldn't be built successfully (exit code 1, logs can be found here: /tmp/xfs-56d77649/build.log)
➤ YN0007: │ nuxt-app@workspace:. must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0009: │ nuxt-app@workspace:. couldn't be built successfully (exit code 1, logs can be found here: /tmp/xfs-8ee15c2e/build.log)
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 0s 646ms
➤ YN0000: Failed with errors in 8s 813ms

 ERROR  Error: Command failed with exit code 1: corepack yarn install

❌ | Yarn 1.22.19 (no PNP, uses node_modules)

error Couldn't find a package.json file in "/reproduction"

$ docker run --rm -it --workdir /reproduction node:20-bookworm-slim bash

# Fails (corepack is not enabled by default)
$ yarn dlx nuxi init --packageManager yarn --gitInit false .
yarn run v1.22.19
error Couldn't find a package.json file in "/reproduction"
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.

Try again (with corepack enabled):

ERROR Error: Command failed with exit code 1: corepack yarn install

$ docker run --rm -it --workdir /reproduction node:20-bookworm-slim bash
$ corepack enable

# `yarn dlx` will use a modern version of yarn to run,
# `nuxi init` will then run the global yarn which is still 1.22.19:
$ yarn dlx nuxi init --packageManager yarn --gitInit false .

➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0032: │ fsevents@npm:2.3.3: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 2s 342ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0013: │ wide-align@npm:1.1.5 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ wrap-ansi@npm:7.0.0 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ wrap-ansi@npm:8.1.0 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ wrappy@npm:1.0.2 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ yallist@npm:4.0.0 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 1s 331ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: │ ESM support for PnP uses the experimental loader API and is therefore experimental
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: Done with warnings in 3s 845ms

◐ Installing dependencies...
yarn install v1.22.19
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
warning [email protected]: The engine "vscode" appears to be invalid.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
warning " > @nuxt/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "vite@*".
warning "@nuxt/devtools > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "vite@^3.1.0 || ^4.0.0".
warning "@nuxt/devtools > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "vite@^3.0.0-0 || ^4.0.0-0".
warning "@nuxt/devtools > @nuxt/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "vite@*".
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
⠁
⠁
error An unexpected error occurred: "/reproduction/node_modules/@esbuild-kit/core-utils/node_modules/esbuild, /reproduction/node_modules/vite/node_modules/esbuild: Cannot find module 'pnpapi'
Require stack:
- /root/.cache/node/corepack/yarn/1.22.19/lib/cli.js
Require stack:
- /root/.cache/node/corepack/yarn/1.22.19/lib/cli.js".



 ERROR  Error: Command failed with exit code 1: corepack yarn install

✔️ | Yarn 3.6.3 (change to nodeLinker: node-modules)

Installation completed.

Unless you have a way to resolve the issues above (Yarn project seems to want to keep legacy yarn as global by default, only using corepack to upgrade with yarn dlx and package.json approaches 🤷‍♂️ ), you may have to let users know to override the linker via ENV?

• When choosing yarn you should probably set packageManager in package.json to ensure it installs with a newer version of yarn (when corepack is enabled).
• Since Nuxt is not compatible with PnP linker, you'd additionally want to create a .yarnrc.yml with nodeLinker: node-modules as a minimum. Once you've configured pacakge.json:packageManager (must be semver like [email protected], cannot use yarn@stable), you can run yarn config set nodeLinker node-modules to do this (if easier than manually creating the file).

EDIT: PNPM support has a related workaround in nuxi init with creating a .npmrc file.

$ docker run --rm -it --workdir /reproduction node:20-bookworm-slim bash

# Requirement (user should already have applied via reading yarn install docs):
$ corepack enable

# Temporary workaround until `package.json:packageManager` is implemented:
$ corepack prepare yarn@stable --activate

# Temporary linker workaround with ENV (`yarn config` not usable until `package.json` exists):
$ YARN_NODE_LINKER=node-modules yarn dlx nuxi init --packageManager yarn --gitInit false .

➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0032: │ fsevents@npm:2.3.3: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 3s 112ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0013: │ wide-align@npm:1.1.5 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ wrap-ansi@npm:7.0.0 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ wrap-ansi@npm:8.1.0 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ wrappy@npm:1.0.2 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ yallist@npm:4.0.0 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 1s 302ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: Done with warnings in 4s 562ms

◐ Installing dependencies...
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0032: │ fsevents@npm:2.3.3: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0032: │ @parcel/watcher@npm:2.3.0: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0032: │ node-addon-api@npm:7.0.0: Implicit dependencies on node-gyp are discouraged
➤ YN0002: │ nuxt-app@workspace:. doesn't provide vite (p73f11), requested by @nuxt/devtools
➤ YN0000: │ Some peer dependencies are incorrectly met; run yarn explain peer-requirements <hash> for details, where <hash> is the six-letter p-prefixed code
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 9s 776ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0013: │ yaml@npm:2.3.2 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ yargs-parser@npm:21.1.1 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ yargs@npm:17.7.2 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ zhead@npm:2.1.1 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0013: │ zip-stream@npm:5.0.1 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote registry
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 5s 537ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0007: │ esbuild@npm:0.19.3 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0007: │ esbuild@npm:0.18.20 must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0007: │ nuxt-app@workspace:. must be built because it never has been before or the last one failed
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 4s 253ms
➤ YN0000: Done with warnings in 19s 677ms
✔ Installation completed.

✨ Nuxt project has been created with the v3 template. Next steps:
 › Start development server with yarn run dev

NOTE: yarn dlx is not a great experience with nuxi since each time yarn takes about 4 seconds to prepare 🙄 (more of an issue with how yarn works, nothing to do with nuxi AFAIK)

Until nuxi init handles the additional yarn support changes. Users should:

• Add the packageManager field to package.json (better portability).
• Run yarn config set nodeLinker: node-modules (avoid requiring an ENV to override).

`yarn build` is successful

Important, since you can use yarn install in some nuxt project that is successful (with nodeLinker: pnp) but fails with yarn build.

$ YARN_NODE_LINKER=node-modules yarn build

Nuxt 3.7.3 with Nitro 2.6.3


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[polarathene]

Additional observation.

When using PNPM, .npmrc file is not created only in the project directory, but was also observed as being added to the root of the filesystem /.npmrc. It shouldn't do that, as the config is specific to Nuxt support?

[Extarys]

To keep track of stuff: Yarn 4 released now : https://yarnpkg.com/blog/release/4.0

[jits]

@polarathene – that should be fixed by https://github.com/nuxt/cli/pull/272

[DarkLite1]

New user here and I've just installed node.js using nvm. Now that is done I'm following the Installation guide which says to execute:

npx nuxi@latest init <project-name>

This always yields the following error:

Because we don't have a project yet, there is no package.json to edit. So we executed the suggestion above without success:

yarn config set nodeLinker node-modules

We also tried yarn config set "strict-ssl" false but without success.

Is there something else we can do to get around this error? Thank you for your help.

[hotenov]

@DarkLite1 Hi! You can always set yarn setting(s) via environment variable(s) (although yarn doc page says: use them sparingly)

In your case, the following command should do what you need (on Linux/Unix machine):

Bash

YARN_NODE_LINKER='node-modules' npx nuxi init projectname

As I see you use Windows (as I do 😃 ), so choose your option:

PowerShell

$env:YARN_NODE_LINKER='node-modules'; npx nuxi init projectname; $env:YARN_NODE_LINKER=$null

CMD

set "YARN_NODE_LINKER=node-modules" & npx nuxi init projectname

Important: For CMD pay attention that we DO NOT use single quotes around node-modules. If you forgot to remove them, installation likely will fail with similar error outpt:

... ➤ YN0012: │ nuxt@npm:3.11.2 [1f046] isn't supported by any available linker ➤ YN0000: └ Completed ➤ YN0000: · Failed with errors in 8s 50ms

ERROR Error: Command failed with exit code 1: corepack yarn install

Note: These commands are not cluttered your system environment variables. Of course, you can set YARN_NODE_LINKER='node-modules' in advance (and if you use node_modules on all your projects). Then npx nuxi init should work without any preparation.

[jmarshall9120]

I'm having the same experience. Some extra info that might help with the cases. Let me know if this should be an separate ticket.

I originally had the same issue as CASE #2 that op posted. I solved in the end by upgrading Yarn. Now I have:

Yarn:

4.3.1

Node:

v20.`12.2

This has made the pnpapi dependencies resolve, but still leaves an issue running the basic install from docs

cd 'M:\\source'
yarn dlx nuxi@latest init AdvancedStorageV3

output:

➤ YN0000: · Yarn 4.3.1
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0085: │ + nuxi@npm:3.12.0, @isaacs/cliui@npm:8.0.2, @npmcli/agent@npm:2.2.2, @npmcli/fs@npm:3.1.1, and 90 more.
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 1s 491ms
➤ YN0000: ┌ Fetch step
➤ YN0013: │ 93 packages were added to the project (+ 13.2 MiB).
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
➤ YN0000: ┌ Link step
➤ YN0000: │ ESM support for PnP uses the experimental loader API and is therefore experimental
➤ YN0000: └ Completed in 0s 286ms
➤ YN0000: · Done with warnings in 1s 972ms


✔ Which package manager would you like to use?
yarn


- If M: is intended to be a project, it might be that you forgot to list source/AdvancedStorageV3 in its workspace configuration.
- Finally, if M: is fine and you intend source/AdvancedStorageV3 to be treated as a completely separate project (not even a workspace), create an empty yarn.lock file in it.

$ yarn install [--json] [--immutable] [--immutable-cache] [--refresh-lockfile] [--check-cache] [--check-resolutions] [--inline-builds] [--mode #0]

 ERROR  Error: Command failed with exit code 1: corepack yarn install  

I'm guessing under the hood, the installer is passing the directory somewhere and its failing. Might be a windows/unix thing. Trying a bunch of workarounds now.

[jmarshall9120]

Okay, this is quite interesting. It turns out the error above is still related to the pnpapi error. Somehow, when upgrading yarn, yarn placed some packages at root M:. Those packages were creating the conflict above. When I removed those packages I got the pnpapi error again.

Rerunning, yarn set version stable, does not make those packages reappear.

[jmarshall9120]

The Yarn update is a false positive. It just caught old dependencies in the root then created a conflict for some reason. I get the same issue as OP Case 2 on Yarn 4.3.1.

[jmarshall9120]

@danielroe - yarn dev from ticket not found module @nuxt/kit when use yarn Plug'n'play #26750 doesn't work with work arounds on windows:

$env:YARN_NODE_LINKER='node-modules';
yarn dev

output

Usage Error: Couldn't find the node_modules state file - running an install might help (findPackageLocation)

$ yarn run [--inspect] [--inspect-brk] [-T,--top-level] [-B,--binaries-only] [--require #0] <scriptName> ...

Side Note: Are we in a state where yarn + nuxt is now un-installable? I got into this trying to do some simple tests on a clean install. This ticket looks like a blocker.

[danielroe]

That seems like a yarn issue, not a Nuxt one.

[charliebeckstrand]

After upgrading Yarn to 4.4.0, I was also getting this error when trying to nuxi init:

ERROR Error: Command failed with exit code 1: corepack yarn install

I fixed it by adding this to my .yarnrc.yml file:

nodeLinker: node-modules

[Foddie2]

The same after removing the node-modules and package-lock module getting the error

error Can't add "nuxt-app": invalid package version "".

[Foddie2]

The same after removing the node-modules and package-lock module getting the error

error Can't add "nuxt-app": invalid package version "".

Just try yarn.lock and reinstall again using yarn install. This solved my error