Execute NODE JS command

Hi,

I am trying to execute a NODE JS command from buildmaster.

I tried the following without success:

Execute a command line, with a bat file
Execute a powershell script
Execute a powershell file

If I execute these commands above, in the server, it works properly. Even for a user without administrative rights.

I am trying to execute the grunt module, so I am installing the module and run the module. Any idea how to solve this problem?

The commands I am trying to execute are:

npm install grunt-cli -g
grunt less

Thanks,

Andy

Product: BuildMaster
Version: 4.3.7

Hi Andy, what specific error message are you getting? Those commands should work, assuming npm and grunt are in the path.

When using execute command line, note that you have to specify arguments on the arguments field, not in the executable name field.

Hi Alana,

Thank you for your response.

When executing a command line I did not receive any error message.
When executing as powershell script I got the following messages:

Command: npm install -g grunt-cli
Message: The term 'npm' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try agai

Command: grunt less
Message: The term 'grunt' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I could execute the first command (npm install -g grunt-cli) from command line. After your message, I set up the command lines as following and it worked perfectly:

Executable file: C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.cmd
Arguments: install grunt-cli -g

After executing the command above, it shows the following:

C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\npm\grunt -> C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\grunt-cli\bin\grunt

grunt-cli@0.1.13 C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\grunt-cliâ -
nopt@1.0.10 (abbrev@1.0.5)- resolve@0.3.1 - findup-sync@0.1.3 (glob@3.2.11, lodash@2.4.1)

Now I am facing some issues trying to execute the grunt less command. How can I execute the grunt command?

Thanks in advance

Any help with this?

Regards

Powershell is probably going to be the eaiest way to go, especially as you write more powershell scripts that use Nodejs.

If you're getting the "npm not found" error during powershell, it sounds like NPM is not on the path. I would do a search for that specific NP not found error message. Heres' what I found, which may or may not be of help?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20992723/npm-is-not-recognized-as-internal-or-external-command-operable-program-or-bat

Thanks Alana for your post. That helped me to solve the problem.

When we install node's modules, it stores the modules into user's appdata folder (eg.: c:\users\joe\appData\Roamind) and add this path into %path% variable.

Running the command from BuildMaster, it will run as system user, saving the modules into C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\npm\ folder and adds the this path into %path% variable.

It seems that Windows 64bits has some problems "refreshing" these values for all users/services/process and even if you check the variable, it will display your change, but running process will not get the updated value.

The solution: Restart the computer. Some people say that is not necessary to restart the computer other people say it is. In my case, restart the computer worked for me.

After restarted the computer, I could see the path created by grunt install command and I could use the grunt less command with both powershell and bat files.

Once again, thank you very much Alana.

Andy

Thanks Andy ..server restart did the trick...cheers!!