A day back, I wrote about Setting up Hyper terminal with ZSH on Windows machine.
Although the setup might work flawless, but there were some hiccups when I tried Node projects with it.
So here are notes on the problems I faced and solutions I opted for.
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Your Window's NodeJs installation wont work in WSL. You would need to install it again using:
sudo apt install nodejs sudo apt install npm
- When trying to npm, you might see below:
Solution to this is to remove the node_modules
directory and install the packages again:
rm -rf ./node_modules
npm install
Still there might be cases where you can face problems like one below.
Where I am trying to install gatsby-cli
but failed because of write permissions.
For the solution, you can refer to this StackOverflow answer.
NVM
As suggested in the SO answer, I decided to use nvm
. Which felt a great option after reading about it.
So I removed node and npm using apt and installed nvm as below:
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Get the shell script
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh
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After verifying, run it
./install_nvm.sh
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It added its following stuff to the
.bashrc
file So i had to move it to.zshrc
to make it work.export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm" [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm [ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_complet>
- Restart the hyper terminal or source the
.zshrc
file -
You can list available node version with following command
nvm ls-remote
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Then you can install node as
nvm install 14.15.1
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Try checking node version to verify installation
node -v
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You can list node installations with
nvm ls
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Switching between versions can be achieved as below
nvm alias fix-bug 12.18.3 nvm use fix-bug
Conclusion
After setting up node with nvm. Everything worked smoothly.
Do remove node_modules
directory and start fresh.
Thats it for this note.
HIH
~ RD
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