npm-ci-please

npm ci with a fallback to npm i when it fails, but shouldn't.

To workaround fun errors like:

7:41:18 PM: npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
7:41:18 PM: npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for @esbuild/android-arm@0.15.15: wanted {"os":"android","arch":"arm"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
7:41:18 PM: npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    android
7:41:18 PM: npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  arm
7:41:18 PM: npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   linux
7:41:18 PM: npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64
7:41:18 PM: npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
7:41:18 PM: npm ERR!     /opt/buildhome/.npm/_logs/2022-12-18T19_41_17_238Z-debug-0.log

See this issue for one case where npm ci is broken and the above error happens.

Ideally npm will fix this bug and this workaround will not be needed.

How?

This tool will first run npm ci, and if that doesn't work it will:

• take a copy of the current "package-lock.json"
• remove "node_modules"
• run npm install
• check if "package-lock.json" contents has changed, and if it has exit with 1, otherwise exit with 0

Note this fallback is not intended to mimick exactly what npm ci does. E.g. with npm ci it won't even try to install anything or run package scripts if the "package-lock.json" is not in sync.

Usage

npx -y npm-ci-please@1

If you want to skip even trying the native npm ci and go straight to the workaround add the --skip-native flag.