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NPM WARN Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.3 ?

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 output from: `node v8.9.1` and  `npm v5.5.1`.
  Windows 7
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Repro steps

  • Step 1 : npm install -g @angular/cli
  • Step 2 : NPM WARN Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.3
  • Step 3

Observed behavior

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Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

19reactions
danielsoglcommented, Nov 20, 2017

You can ignore this warning. fs-events is required on macOS

17reactions
kirhhofcommented, Mar 20, 2018

adding this to package.json solved the problem for me

 "optionalDependencies": {
    "fsevents": "*"
  }
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