npm packages not working when I install them

Question

I am currently working on a coding project, and would like to test them on my RaspPi. All of the code works when I run it on travis-ci. However, when I run it on RaspPi nothing happens. Here is a simplified version:

~$ npm install jsdoc
# bunch of stats that all report success
~$ jsdoc --help
~$ jsdoc --help

As you can see, jsdoc is outputting nothing, as if it never installed. But the following shows it is installed:

~$ jsdoc
bash: jsdoc: command not found
~$ npm install jsdoc
~$ jsdoc --help
~$ jsdoc --help

For the full repo, look here: https://github.com/FreezePhoenix/XtraUtils/tree/JavaScript

Hmm, I wonder if it's a Node verson issue. How did you install Node on your Pi? Could you also check the version with node -v? — Aurora0001, May 27 '18 at 19:28
I installed node using sudo apt-get install node which installed it as nodejs... and node -v gives nothing. — FreezePhoenix, May 27 '18 at 19:32
Hmm, is this Raspbian Jessie on the problematic Pi? If so, that would probably explain it. — Aurora0001, May 27 '18 at 19:33
NOOBS isn't your OS, it's a tool that you would have used to install an OS (most likely Raspbian). You can get your OS version with cat /etc/os-release. — Aurora0001, May 27 '18 at 19:36
why are you using differrent commands in your second example? it does not prove that there is a problem with the first example .......... using jsdoc command in the second example does not prove that jsdoc --help failed ..... a fail will be proven only if you use jsdoc --help in the second example and you get a help doc — jsotola, May 27 '18 at 23:21

Aurora0001 · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-27T19:45:16.547

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My original thought that it was a global/local installation issue was incorrect. The issue is probably caused by using the nodejs package from the repositories instead of directly from Node. On Jessie, nodejs v0.10.29 is provided, and on Stretch, v4.8.2. Version 0.10 is from 2013, which is, in Node terms, ancient.

JSDoc isn't compatible with 0.10.29 (the Jessie version), but it is compatible with 4.8.2:

JSDoc supports Node.js 4.2.0 and later. You can install JSDoc globally or in your project's node_modules folder.

You can either:

Upgrade to Stretch
install a more recent version of Node without upgrading to Stretch.

edited May 27 '18 at 19:45

answered May 27 '18 at 18:07

Aurora0001

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Your suggestions did not work, neither the first one nor the second one. – FreezePhoenix May 27 '18 at 18:48
Thanks. I can now use npm... It wasn't just jsdoc, it was every npm package. Thanks! – FreezePhoenix May 27 '18 at 19:54
@FreezePhoenix So, what fixed it? – Mast May 27 '18 at 20:06
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@Mast https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44840243#44840243 – FreezePhoenix May 27 '18 at 21:23

npm packages not working when I install them

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