Having issues building node project while using the new orbs

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Hi guys, I’ve tried a few variations of the following however was unable to get this to run correctly. Does anyone know the correct way to do this? Do I have to specify a docker container? The orb example with the hello world script led me to believe that is no longer necessary.

version: 2.1

orbs:
  node: circleci/node@1.0.1

workflows:
  build:
    jobs:
      - node/install
      - node/install-npm
      - run:
        command: |
          npm install
          npm run build
      - store_artifacts:
          path: /

version: 2.1

orbs:
  node: circleci/node@1.0.1

workflows:
  build:
    jobs:
      build:
        steps:
          - node/install
          - node/install-npm
          - run:
            command: |
              npm install
              npm run build
          - store_artifacts:
              path: /
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@Arimil node/install and node/install-npm are commands, not jobs, so your first example definitely won’t work:

https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/orb/circleci/node#commands

Your second example looks fine, mostly, but you’ll still have to define that build job somewhere—and yes, that means you need to choose an execution environment (probably a Docker image) where it will run. You can use the executor included in the node orb, though, which makes it easy:

executor: node/default

Also, it looks like you have a YAML indentation issue in your run step code. Running circleci config validate on your local machine before pushing to GitHub is always a good way to iron out those kinds of issues ahead of time:

https://circleci-public.github.io/circleci-cli/circleci_config_validate.html

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Thanks, I got it working however it seems using the node executor fails since some node modules require make. I went back to using the node docker image since it has those dependencies.

Unfortunately the circleci cli doesn’t run on Windows afaik.

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Hmm, well I’m glad you got it working, but that’s a bit strange, as the Node executor is really just an abstraction over CircleCI’s Node Docker image:

And it should definitely have make installed.

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