Unable to follow steps in the "How to Contribute" guide

Troubleshooting

Issue Description

I am attempting to follow the how to contribute guide, but when I run

npm install
npm run build

I get an error

I am running npm and node versions 5.5.1 (maybe I need to install an older version?)

>npm node -v && npm -v
5.5.1
5.5.1

Any idea what I’m doing wrong here?

Error logs

,,npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL
npm ERR! Could not install from "..\..\_build\Tasks\Common\codecoverage-tools" as it does not contain a package.json file.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-11-03T17_20_53_946Z-debug.log

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! Agent.Tasks@0.5.0 build: `node make.js build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the Agent.Tasks@0.5.0 build 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!     C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-11-03T17_20_53_996Z-debug.log```

[shaneholder]

I would actually suggest that a min ver, max ver be added to the contribution guide, at least until the higher version npm’s/nodes are supported.

[kuvinodms]

@stephenmichaelf npm install -g npm@4 This worked for me!