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Modules that run install scripts require node to be on the path. Helper scripts don't cover this.

See original GitHub issue

When installing node-sass (for example), the process executes node scripts/install.js and when node is not on the path this fails… or worse, node IS on the path but is somehow incompatible which causes the module to be installed in a broken state (which happened to me). I could make a pull request for the helper script, but it’s a single line change. I suggest this:

#!/bin/sh
PATH="$PWD/node/":$PATH
node "node/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js" "$@"

It puts the embedded node binary earlier on the path, which should give it precedence over a globally installed version (if any).

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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RobzInadEcommented, Apr 12, 2016

It works now, bumped the plugin version (decided to bump node to v4.4.2 and npm to 3.8.3 as well) and it works fine! Sorry for confusion! I’d have avoided this if you had changelogs 😉

Regards

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eirslettcommented, Apr 11, 2016

because it runs node install.js and node isn’t on the path

All the recent versions of this plugin are supposed to fix that; node and npm should be added to PATH whenever you run Maven.

Could you try to add phantomjs-prebuilt to this integration test: (basically upgrade the karma/phantomjs dependencies) and see if you can reproduce the problem there? https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin/tree/master/frontend-maven-plugin/src/it/example project

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