Wednesday, October 27, 2021

[SOLVED] Can't install laravel-echo-server with npm and .ebextensions (code ELIFECYCLE)

Issue

Context of Error

I am launching an EC2 instance (Linux PHP platform). During the build, I install npm successfully as well as an unrelated package PM2.

However after that it tries to install laravel-echo-server using npm i -g laravel-echo-server and it always returns an error:

$ npm i -g laravel-echo-server


 /usr/bin/laravel-echo-server -> /usr/lib/node_modules/laravel-echo-server/bin/server.js

  > [email protected] postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/laravel-echo-server/node_modules/spawn-sync
  > node postinstall

  npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
  npm ERR! syscall spawn sh
  npm ERR! file sh
  npm ERR! path sh
  npm ERR! errno -2
  npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node postinstall`
  npm ERR! spawn sh ENOENT
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
  npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

Attempts at Resolving

The weird thing is it works completely fine when I SSH into the instance after build and run the command myself. It is only when the .ebextensions build tries to call it that it fails.

npm config set scripts-prepend-node-path true  #to make sure it has the right node path
sudo ln -s `which nodejs` /usr/bin/node        #to create a sym link to the node location
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/nodejs       #another attempt to create a sym link to the node location

Additional Info

.ebextensions script

sudo yum install -y gcc-c++ make
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_13.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo yum install -y nodejs
npm install -g pm2@latest
npm install -g laravel-echo-server

which node

/usr/bin/node

which nodejs

not found    #or /usr/bin/nodejs if I create the symlink, but that doesn't help

which pm2

/usr/bin/pm2

Solution

Apparently it was a problem with spawn sync, so I changed it to this and it worked succesfully:

npm i -g laravel-echo-server --ignore-scripts spawn-sync


Answered By - famouspotatoes
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