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Asked: 2026-06-17T23:23:11+00:00

I have a fresh virtualenv environment and have got the latest django-pipleline. The JS

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I have a fresh virtualenv environment and have got the latest django-pipleline.

The JS compression with Closure works perfect, but CSS compression with Yuglify fails, due a node error:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'pipeline.storage.PipelineCachedStorage'
PIPELINE_JS_COMPRESSOR = 'pipeline.compressors.closure.ClosureCompressor'
PIPELINE_CSS_COMPRESSOR = 'pipeline.compressors.yuglify.YuglifyCompressor'

When I try to collect the static:

./manage.py collectstatic

It says:

pipeline.compressors.CompressorError: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

But I have clearly installed yuglify even as global:

sudo npm -g install yuglify

/usr/local/bin/yuglify -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yuglify/bin/yuglify
yuglify@0.1.2 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yuglify 
├── uglify-js@1.3.4
├── ycssmin@1.0.1
└── nopt@2.1.1

Trying to set the biney in settings doesn’t help either:

PIPELINE_YUGLIFY_BINARY = '/usr/local/bin/yuglify'

I still get the same error. Why now such problems with npm? Is there something I have to setup additionally?

Alternatively is there a way to install yuglify with pip?

Many Thanks,

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  1. Editorial Team

    After 3 hours of suffering, I have found the solution.

    This is happening because of a misnaming error, if you install from a package manager (npm) your bin may be called nodejs so you just need to symlink it like this:

    ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

    Now it is working. This didn’t happen with the older version, its is something new. But at least it is working again. I hope this helps someone else out there. 🙂

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