Troubleshooting Node.js

The following are possible solutions to problems you might encounter with Node.js and GDK.

Error installing node-gyp

node-gyp may fail to build on macOS Catalina installations. Follow the node-gyp troubleshooting guide.

‘yarn install’ fails due node incompatibility issues

If you’re running a version of node between 13.0 and 13.7, you might see the following error message:

error extract-files@8.1.0: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "10 - 12 || >= 13.7". Got "13.2.0" error Found incompatible module.

If you’re using nvm, you can confirm the version of node that you’re using:

nvm current node -v

You can adjust node to an acceptable version with the following command:

nvm install <version>

yarn: error: no such option: –pure-lockfile

The full error you might be getting is:

Makefile:134: recipe for target '.gitlab-yarn' failed make: *** [.gitlab-yarn] Error 2

This is likely to happen if you installed yarn using apt install cmdtest.

To fix this, install yarn using npm instead:

npm install --global yarn