esbuild postinstall scripts hangs randomly on WSL

[UltraCakeBakery]

When doing a npm install inside my devcontainer (FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/javascript-node:14/:16 esbuild always causes the entire terminal to freeze.

Nothing changes when I clear the npm cache, restart WSL, restart/reset docker.

This is all logs I have available:

node ➜ /app/backend (02ed521 ✗) $ npm cache clean --force
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
node ➜ /app/backend (02ed521 ✗) $ npm ci
npm WARN prepare removing existing node_modules/ before installation

> [email protected] postinstall /app/backend/node_modules/esbuild
> node install.js

After this I have to manually stop the script again as it simply never ends.

How could I debug this properly?

[Gelio]

I'm encountering a similar problem on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS and using yarn v2.4.1. I was able to install esbuild v0.12.25 initially, but then after removing node_modules, it gets stuck at the postinstall script.

Downgrading to v0.12.24 allowed me to install it, but again, reinstalling after cleaning node_modules is stuck at postinstall.

[senritsu]

Having a similar issue with the mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/typescript-node image. esbuild hangs on npm install or yarn install. Interrupting the hanging install with ctrl-c led to an error message from esbuild.

After restarting the container install worked, but still needed node ./node_modules/esbuild/install.js before the (vite) project was able to actually start.