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It appears that npm install is not adding files to node_modules/.bin

TL;DR:: My package depends on npm-run-all and eslint, etc. I should have node_modules/.bin/run-s and node_modules/.bin/eslint after running npm install, but I don’t. Why not?

Here’s my config:

stages:
  - install
  - test
  - deploy

cache:
  key:
    files:
      - package-lock.json
      - functions/package-lock.json
    prefix: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
  paths:
    - node_modules
    - functions/node_modules

install:
  image: node:latest
  stage: install
  before_script:
    - npm install --unsafe-perm
    - npm install --unsafe-perm --prefix functions
  script:
    - pwd
    - ls node_modules/.bin

test:
  image: buildkite/puppeteer:latest
  stage: test
  environment: staging
  script:
    - pwd
    - npm run lint
    - npm run test

# etc

And here’s the output for pwd and ls node_modules/.bin

$ pwd
/builds/bennyp/project-name
$ ls node_modules/.bin
atob
is-ci
patch-package
pbjs
pbts
rc
semver
which
window-size

which of course causes the next stage to crash with

$ pwd
/builds/bennyp/project-name
$ npm run lint
> project-name@1.0.0 lint /builds/bennyp/project-name
> run-s lint:*
sh: 1: run-s: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! project-name@1.0.0 lint: `run-s lint:*`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the project-name@1.0.0 lint script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-02-15T21_05_07_089Z-debug.log

Excerpts from package.json

  "dependencies": {
    "firebase": "^7.8.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "eslint": "^6.8.0",
    "npm-run-all": "^4.1.5",
    "patch-package": "^6.2.0",
    "rollup": "^1.31.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "build": "run-s build:*",
    "clean": "run-s clean:*",
    "lint": "run-s lint:*",
    "start": "run-p start:*",
    "test": "run-s test:*",
    "watch": "rollup -cw",
    "build:client": "rollup -c",
    "build:functions": "npm run build --prefix functions",
    "clean:client": "rm -rf build",
    "clean:functions": "rm -rf functions/build",
    "lint:client": "eslint src/**/*.ts",
    "lint:functions": "npm run lint --prefix functions",
    "start:firebase": "firebase serve",
    "start:watch": "rollup -cw",
    "test:client:watch": "karma start --auto-watch=true --single-run=false",
    "test:client": "karma start --coverage",
    "test:functions": "npm run test --prefix functions",
    "postinstall": "patch-package",
    "update": "npm-check -u"
  },

What is going on here?

2

so much derp…

I needed to unset NODE_ENV=production

I sigh so hard