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Michael OConnell
Michael OConnell

Reputation: 83

npm scripts don't find files in node_modules/.bin

I have npm scripts that run webpack

"scripts": {
    "build": "webpack --display-error-details --progress --config webpack.dev.config.js",
    "build:prod": "webpack --display-error-details --config webpack.prod.config.js",
  }

Webpack installs fine and I can see the symlink in node_modules/.bin

Locally I can do an npm run build and it works, however on the production server it fails with:

/bin/sh: 1: webpack: not found

I can run node_modules/.bin/webpack and everything works.

Output of npm config ls looks nearly identical local vs server (same npm and node versions)

; cli configs
metrics-registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
scope = ""
user-agent = "npm/6.4.1 node/v8.10.0 linux x64"

; userconfig /home/ubuntu/.npmrc
script-shell = "/bin/sh"

; builtin config undefined
globalconfig = "/etc/npmrc"
globalignorefile = "/etc/npmignore"
prefix = "/usr/local"

; node bin location = /usr/bin/node

What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 696

Answers (1)

Michael OConnell
Michael OConnell

Reputation: 83

At the end of the day, it was because npm run doesn't work in directories containing a colon, because $PATH is delimited with colons.

npm issue here

Upvotes: 3

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