Build fail with circleci/node:latest

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#1

Hi,

My build started to fail with the latest version of the nodejs docker image (circleci/node:latest). I didn’t change anything in the config or anywhere:

version: 2
jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      - image: 'circleci/node:latest'
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run:
          name: install
          command: npm ci
      - run:
          name: commitlint
          command: npx --no-install commitlint-circle
      - run:
          name: lint
          command: npm run lint
      - run:
          name: test
          command: npm run test
      - run:
          name: build
          command: npm run build
      - run:
          name: release
          command: npx --no-install semantic-release

This is my config file, The issue happens because I generate a folder during installation phase (postinstall) and for some reason the folder is not available anymore for the following steps

Do i do something bad, or is there a problem with the image ? I did this for quite a long time and I never had any issues until now.

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#2

Hi @Nebulis! Thanks for your patience. I didn’t see any other reports about this image not working recently, but let me dig and make sure. Is the build still failing, and if so, is there a specific error?

#3

Hi, this is the error I get:

src/index.ts:1:26 - error TS2307: Cannot find module './__generated__/sg/gov/tech/geekout/1.0/schema' or its corresponding type declarations.

1 import * as geekout from "./__generated__/sg/gov/tech/geekout/1.0/schema";

The reason is that the generated code after npm install is not available. I downgraded to circleci/node:14.13.1 and it works well.

#4

One thing to keep in mind is that even if you don’t change anything, if you’re using the latest tag, the image pulls its version from upstream (Docker). It will update to the latest version released, and it looks like 15.x just released a few days ago.

#5

I didn’t consider node 15 indeed. I checked the install phase and I noticed that for node 15 images, postinstall is not run which explain the issue.

npm ci on node 14 image:

#!/bin/bash -eo pipefail
npm ci

> core-js@2.6.11 postinstall /home/circleci/project/node_modules/core-js
> node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"


> fsevents@1.2.13 install /home/circleci/project/node_modules/fsevents
> node install.js


Skipping 'fsevents' build as platform linux is not supported

> @govtechsg/oa-schemata@0.0.0-development postinstall /home/circleci/project
> node scripts/post-install

Creating types from src/sg/gov/tech/geekout/1.0/schema.json
Creating types from src/sg/gov/moh/healthcert/1.0/schema.json
added 1212 packages in 20.498s
CircleCI received exit code 0

npm ci on node 15 image:

npm ci
[         .........] / <LOGS THAT I REMOVED>
added 1212 packages, and audited 1645 packages in 28s

1 package is looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

30 vulnerabilities (22 low, 8 high)

To address issues that do not require attention, run:
  npm audit fix

To address all issues (including breaking changes), run:
  npm audit fix --force

Run `npm audit` for details.
CircleCI received exit code 0

Any reason about that ?

#6

Looks like there is an issue with npm ci and postinstall with npm 7 => https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/1905

Thanks for the pointer :slight_smile: