Npm Install fails

Attempting to npm install after cloning the repo fails with no clear fix. Here is the summary terminal output:

Summary: fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=] 10 warnings and 20 errors generated. make: *** [Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o] Error 1 gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12) gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0 gyp ERR! command “/usr/local/Cellar/node/12.4.0/bin/node” “/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “rebuild” gyp ERR! cwd /Users/paul.briar/Desktop/Learning/Gatsby/starter-gatsby-blog/node_modules/sharp gyp ERR! node -v v12.4.0 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0 gyp ERR! not ok npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.4 (node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.4 install: node install npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! sharp@0.20.5 install: (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy) npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the sharp@0.20.5 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! /Users/paul.briar/.npm/_logs/2019-07-10T12_51_08_422Z-debug.log

[jasloe]

As a temporary fix, you can use nvm to install version 11.15.0 of node.

nvm install 11.15.0
nvm use 11.15.0
yarn install

[mrbowes]

@jasloe - had same issue. Appreciate your workaround - that worked!