Cannot read property 'aws-cdk-lib' of undefined when running npm ci during build stage

[chrisammon3000]

Describe the bug

npm ci fails during pipeline build stage. Possibly after updating to version 2.53.0.

Expected Behavior

npm ci should run and build should complete successfully.

Current Behavior

[Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:31 Phase complete: INSTALL State: SUCCEEDED
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31 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:31 Phase context status code:  Message:
32 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Entering phase PRE_BUILD
33 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Phase complete: PRE_BUILD State: SUCCEEDED
34 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Phase context status code:  Message:
35 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Entering phase BUILD
36 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Running command npm ci
37 | npm ERR! Cannot read property 'aws-cdk-lib' of undefined
38 |  
39 | npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
40 | npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2022-11-30T01_59_32_601Z-debug.log
41 |  
42 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Command did not exit successfully npm ci exit status 1
43 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Phase complete: BUILD State: FAILED
44 | [Container] 2022/11/30 01:59:32 Phase context status code: COMMAND_EXECUTION_ERROR Message: Error while executing command: npm ci. Reason: exit status 1

Reproduction Steps

1. Run npx cdk deploy after completing the step "Create New Pipeline" in the CDK Workshop for Typescript.
2. Push changes to CodeCommit repository
3. CodePipeline starts a build automatically

Possible Solution

• Deleted package-lock.json
• Deleted node_modules
• Reinstall using npm install

Additional Information/Context

Before running into this issue I update cdk to 2.53.0

CDK CLI Version

2.53.0 (build 7690f43)

Section

TypeScript Workshop → Advanced Topics → CDK Pipelines → Create New Pipeline

Browser

Chrome

Language

Typescript

[gregbreen]

Hi. I got this same error when I used a much newer version of npm (9) on my dev machine than what was available in the CodeBuild image (6). I had to explicitly specify a newer build image in my CDK app.

        buildEnvironment: {
          buildImage: codebuild.LinuxBuildImage.STANDARD_6_0
        },

[peterwoodworth]

Should be addressed on the latest version of CDK aws/aws-cdk#24544

Let us know if this needs to still be configured on latest version of CDK

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