I'm building an angular2 app, and I've developed a build profile in TFS to auto-build it.
There are four npm commands:
npm install angular-cli -g
npm install
npm run typings (executes typings install)
npm run build (executes ng build)
And then a Copy Publish Artifact step.
However, even when every step passes, it says Finishing Copy and Publish Build Artifacts, the project has been built, and the files have been moved, the actual build never finishes. I've tried breaking those npm commands into a powershell script, having them as NPM commands within TFS, and running them as CMD commands, but the same thing happens every time. Also, if I just remote into the build server and run the commands by hand, it works just fine.
Any ideas?
We've gone through the same headache recently, and I'd strongly suggest you not rely on TFS Build to restore npm packages. Even when you get that right, it takes long and doesn't deploy the node_modules you need to IIS.
Instead, use WebPack to bundle up your node_modules into a bundle.js.
Reference this in your projects/scripts folder and check it into source control.
Remove any npm install steps in your build process (it won't be required anymore since you're referencing the bundle.js now).
This will increase your quality (no future package version surprises), and speed up your deployment (no need to download npm packages on each build anymore).
It's fairly quick to get Webpack installed and you'll save yourself headaches :)
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Started encountering this issue after pushing changes which has nothing to do with the node_modules or the deployment pipeline.
This issue is also seen when trying to rerun an already successful deployment in bitbucket.
I even tried updating the some of the packages to the latest version, but it still throws the same error.
But locally in my pc I have no issue with npm run build.
When the bitbucket pipeline is run.
The docker first installs node_modules using the npm install cmd.
After this while running npm run build the pipeline is failing with the error shown in the image above.
So I suspect it is the packages in the node_modules that are newly getting downloaded, because locally I have no problem with the build cmd.
Could anyone help me out, whether it is the incompatibility between the npm packages or the pipeline itself, Or if there might be any other error.
Thank you
Thanks to #Nitheesram Rajes I was able to fix this issue by updating typescript package using the command
npm install --save-dev typescript#latest
I'm trying to build the "latest" version of Appium Desktop from source (on a Mac), but I'm clearly not doing something that I need to be doing, because no binary is generated after I run all the build commands.
So, I've downloaded and unpacked the .zip archive https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/archive/v1.16.0.zip, opened up a terminal session inside the root of the source directory, and followed the online instructions for building from source--but I think this is for the server build https://appium.io/docs/en/contributing-to-appium/appium-from-source/#running-appium-from-source
npm install
npm run build
node .
And it all appears to work successfully! I get a "build completed" message and life looks fab, but nothing launches as far as an app is concerned, and I can find no .app file anywhere in the source directory. And, oddly, there are no build instructions to be found anywhere in the source directory. There's a "ReadMe.md" file but it provides no instructions on how to build from source.
Can someone please tell me what I need to do to build and launch Appium Desktop (not the server) from source? (Oh, I also ran appium-doctor and it gave me a clean bill of health.)
Any feedback would be most appreciated!
Thanks,
Wulf
You've already run npm install so it should be as simple as running npm run dev if you want it in dev mode or npm start if you want non-dev.
See the Contributing to Appium Desktop readme for more.
When run manually, yarn install works without a hitch.
When run from Jenkins, however, one package is simply missing! Even when run after a manual execution. I only run a single instance of yarn each time.
In both cases (manual and Jenkins) I use the same working directory and the same user. The missing package is ng, and it's a dependency of #angular (yarn install creates more package.json files in nested folders).
Any ideas what could be the cause of this issue?
Currently I use yarn install --check-files as a workaround until I figure out why yarn deletes packages in the first place. If anyone has a better solution I'd like to hear it :)
I have a ASP.Net 4.5 MVC application which uses Angular 1.5. The JS code is Typescript and a post build action builds the js code and deploys it to the folder where my application refers to.
I have a Slot on my azure web app which is backed my gitlab repo. Committing to the repo, triggers the deployment, however the post deployment build frequently seems to have issues when a bower/npm or typings library is updated (which is resolved by manually clearing the folder via the kudu console). Does someone have an example of a deploy.cmd script which does the equivalent of
npm install
typings install
at the correct point in the pipeline so that the files get deployed correctly.
I want to start scratch with a new slot, and to get the existing slot to work in the past i had to manually install typings for example "npm install typings --global" in order to get the build to work without a typings error.
Update Output Below
I'm guessing that the errors below are due to azure running typescript 1.6 compiler over reference files which need typescript > 1.6.
My csproj has <TypeScriptToolsVersion>2.0</TypeScriptToolsVersion>
(ive removed my files from the compile output, but the _all.d.ts file does reference the errored files below
CompileTypeScript:
D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\TypeScript\1.6\tsc.exe --sourcemap --target ES5 --noEmitOnError "REMOVED MY TYPESCRIPTFILES" "D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\app\src\_all.d.ts"
D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\typings\globals\angular\index.d.ts(1824,32): error TS1110: Build: Type expected. [D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\mymvcproject.csproj]
D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\typings\globals\angular\index.d.ts(1824,50): error TS1005: Build: ']' expected. [D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\mymvcproject.csproj]
D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\typings\globals\angular\index.d.ts(1824,58): error TS1005: Build: ',' expected. [D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\mymvcproject.csproj]
D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\typings\globals\angular\index.d.ts(1824,59): error TS1136: Build: Property assignment expected. [D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\mymvcproject.csproj]
D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\typings\globals\angular\index.d.ts(1941,1): error TS1128: Build: Declaration or statement expected. [D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\mymvcproject.csproj]
Done Building Project "D:\home\site\repository\mymvcproject\mymvcproject.csproj" (Build;pipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder target(s)) -- FAILED.
FINAL UPDATE
After the typescript team finally generated a version of typescript 2.* which could be installed on Azure, and then the Kudu team deployed it. Now the whole process works! the note from below about using
"preinstall": "npm install typescript -g && npm install typings -g"
Was the other part of the solution!
According to your requirement, you could follow the steps below to achieve your purpose.
Create a deployment script
You could log in to KUDU tool (https://.scm.azurewebsites.net/), click "Tool" > "Download deployment script". Also, you could leverage azure-cli to generate the script. For more details about how to generate deployment script via azure-cli, you could refer to this tutorial.
Customize the deployment script
For using NPM to manage your packages, you could add the following scripts in your package.json file.
"scripts":{
"preinstall": "npm install typescript -g && npm install typings -g"
}
Then, you need to add the following scripts to the deploy.cmd file.
IF EXIST "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\package.json" (
pushd "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%"
echo installing npm package
call :ExecuteCmd npm install --production
IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error
popd
)
Or you could add the following scripts to install typescript and typings directly via command line.
echo Installing typescript and typings
call npm install typescript -g && npm install typings -g
IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error
Note: The .deployment, deploy.cmd files need to be placed in the root directory of your solution. You could refer to this sample project for details.
After starting with a new ionic app, I can see at bower.json that comes with ionic is in devdependencies. Why is it a devdependency and not a normal dependency?
"devDependencies": {
"ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#1.0.0-rc.0"
},
Thanks, I feel confused right now
having devDependencies gives you the opportunity to simplify the steps that drive you from the source files (a git clone of the project) to the production ready app
when you don't need to make changes and (develop) the application, you could just run
bower install --production
or
npm install --production
they work the same
bower install options
-F, --force-latest: Force latest version on conflict
-p, --production: Do not install project devDependencies
-S, --save: Save installed packages into the project’s bower.json dependencies
-D, --save-dev: Save installed packages into the project’s bower.json devDependencies
-E, --save-exact: Configure installed packages with an exact version rather than semver
bower documentation
npm install options
By default, npm install will install all modules listed as
dependencies. With the --production flag (or when the NODE_ENV
environment variable is set to production), npm will not install
modules listed in devDependencies.
npm documentation
This way you take less time to ship the app and don't waste bandwidth downloading stuff you won't need.
Given that, to me, the choice of listing ionic as devDependecy is a poor one: it implies that I could take advantage of this choice to get ready the app for execution this way:
git clone my-project
git cd my-project
npm install --production # ionic not installed here
ionic state restore
ionic build ios
Now, if you ignore the content of /lib folder in your sources, this should not work, and if it works because the ionic-cli does some more checks to save your ass, I think this is unclear.
From what I understand, dependencies are required to run, and devDependencies are only for development, like minification, unit tests, etc.
Both will install when you do npm install but only dependencies will install when you do npm install $package, unless you add the --dev option