Question

I began working through the Trigger.io tutorial. After viewing the output successfully in the iPhone simulator and the Android emulator, I decided I wanted to see it in a desktop browser, so ran forge run web as per the docs. However, this didn’t work: the command apparently could not find Node.js, even though it is installed, up to date, and on my path.

(forge-environment)spksmb:demo-app sampablokuper$ forge run web
[   INFO] Forge tools running at version 3.3.0
[   INFO] enabled platforms: ['web']
[   INFO] <ForgeTask (web)> running...
[   INFO] reading app code from /Volumes/Data/sampablokuper/Documents/demo-app/src
[   INFO] writing new app to /Volumes/Data/sampablokuper/Documents/demo-app/development
[   INFO] Checking JavaScript files...
[   INFO] JavaScript check complete
[   INFO] Verifying your configuration settings...
[   INFO] Configuration settings check complete
[  ERROR] failed to run npm: do you have Node.js installed and on your path? while running run_web((), {})
[  ERROR] failed to run npm: do you have Node.js installed and on your path?
(forge-environment)spksmb:demo-app sampablokuper$ which node
/opt/local/bin/node
(forge-environment)spksmb:demo-app sampablokuper$ node -v
v0.6.15

Is this a bug, or have I made a mistake somewhere?

Answer 1

It’s actually npm we’re trying to run here; of course, if node is on your path I’d expect npm to be there too, but would be worth checking it’s there and can be executed:

which npm
npm -v
npm ls

If npm really is on your path, send your forge-error.log file to [e-mail] and we’ll have a look through it.