NPM postinstall hooks not run with npm 5.3.0

[Jwashton]

As tested on two Ubuntu boxes and a Mac:

$ npm --version
5.3.0
$ npm install -g create-elm-app
# ... runs but doesn't call the postinstall hooks to create the shim
$ asdf global nodejs 8.1.2
$ npm --version
5.2.0
$ npm install -g create-elm-app
# ... runs and creates the shim as expected.

[4ndv]

Same problem with npm 5.1.0 and 5.2.0:

▲ ~ npm i -g coffeescript
/Users/noir/.asdf/installs/nodejs/8.1.2/.npm/bin/coffee -> /Users/noir/.asdf/installs/nodejs/8.1.2/.npm/lib/node_modules/coffeescript/bin/coffee
/Users/noir/.asdf/installs/nodejs/8.1.2/.npm/bin/cake -> /Users/noir/.asdf/installs/nodejs/8.1.2/.npm/lib/node_modules/coffeescript/bin/cake
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updated 1 package in 1.352s
▲ ~ coffee
zsh: command not found: coffee

But with 5.0.4 everything is ok

[caleb]

For now you can fix this by manually shimming: asdf shim nodejs .npm/bin/ember.

[ccblaisdell]

I had this issue and I wasn't entirely sure how to use @caleb 's fix. Based on what he provided I came up with the following:

~ ➜ asdf shim nodejs ~/.asdf/installs/nodejs/8.5.0/.npm/bin/ttab
~ ➜ asdf reshim nodejs 8.5.0

It didn't work after the first command, but it did after the second. I'm not entirely sure the first command was necessary, so ymmv.

[RobinClowers]

Yeah, same problem on macos. This is pretty annoying, any idea how we can fix this?

[caleb]

I think the shims work in the newest version of this plugin... It doesn't use a post install hook anymore, so try upgrading to the newest version of the plugin: asdf plugin-update --all

This seems to have worked for me.

[zainfathoni]

I just upgraded the plugin to the newest version, but I still need to execute asdf reshim nodejs everytime I install npm package globally.

[caleb]

@zainfathoni You are right, the automatic shimming is broken for me too.

edit: Try re-installing your nodejs... maybe you installed at a time when the npm postinstall hook wasn't installed on installation of a new node version...

It /seems/ to work for me when I wiped my nodejs versions and did a new asdf install nodejs 6.11.4, and then npm install -g babel-cli etc.

[zainfathoni]

Thanks for the suggestion @caleb, I will try it out later. 😄

[zainfathoni]

Hi @caleb , I already installed a new version of nodejs and tried to install vue-cli globally, but it still didn't shimmed correctly. So I still had to execute asdf reshim nodejs 8.7.0 again to make vue command available globally.

$ asdf install nodejs 8.7.0
$ asdf global nodejs 8.7.0
$ npm install -g vue-cli # vue command is not recognized yet
$ asdf reshim nodejs 8.7.0 # now vue command is recognized

Is it necessary to reinstall the asdf-nodejs plugin to make it works?

[caleb]

You just have to make sure your NodeJS asdf plug in is the latest version before installing NodeJS. It has been working for me. So maybe your asdf plug in is not up to date

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[sevenseacat]

I'm needing to manually re-shim after globally installing libraries too. I just set up asdf and asdf-nodejs today, and still seeing the behaviour.

[willbchang]

It still happens

➜  ~ node -v
v15.0.1
➜  ~ npm -v
7.0.3

➜  ~ which node
/Users/Will/.asdf/shims/node
➜  ~ which npm
/Users/Will/.asdf/shims/npm

➜  ~ npm i -g pnpm
added 1 package, and audited 1 package in 8s
➜  ~ pnpm
fish: Unknown command: pnpm

➜  ~ asdf reshim nodejs 
➜  ~ pnpm -v
5.10.2
➜  ~ which pnpm
/Users/Will/.asdf/shims/pnpm

[vaibhavsingh97]

As @willbchang said, it still happening for me too :(

[augustobmoura]

This issue is solved on master now. The problem was on the npm side, it didn't fully support npm .hooks in these specific versions. I added a new mechanism for auto-reshimming that doesn't rely on node_modules/.hooks