npm postinstall fails when the package is a (git) dependency.

[Tom]

Hi.

I have RepoA and RepoB which both contain a package.json.

RepoA is my 'library' that I want to use in a set of other projects.

All my code is written using CoffeeScript, and I am using Gulp to compile this from a src/ to a build/ directory.

RepoA's package.json contains:

...

"main": "build/index",

...

"dependencies": {

  ...

  "gulp": "*",

  ...

},

...

"scripts": {

  "postinstall": "./node_modules/.bin/gulp --require coffee-script/register"

},

...

When I run npm install from RepoA, it installs all npm packages including gulp then runs the postinstall command, generating my build files and making the main entry work.

When I run npm install from RepoB, which has listed RepoA as one of its dependencies using git+https:// to my gitlab instance, it will fail claiming gulp is not installed ("sh: gulp: command not found").

When I run npm install from RepoB again, gulp is already installed and the postinstall run works.

So it works the second try.

What am I doing wrong here?

gr,

Tom

[Tom]

By advice of IRC I have removed the './node_modules/.bin' from the postinstall but that gives me the same result.

[Tom Wieland]

I have now created a RepoA/index.js containing

require('coffee-script/register');

module.exports = require('./src/index.coffee');

which works but is not the solution I was looking for :S

[Alex Kocharin]

 

I think it should be "prepublish", not "postinstall".

 

 

05.03.2014, 13:18, "Tom" <tom.w...@gmail.com>:

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