npm install --production fails because of postinstall

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npm install --production fails because of postinstall

olingerc opened this issue 8 years ago · 2 comments

Hi,

The postinstall npm run webdriver-update fails on my production system. What does this do? The system works without it. After googling a bit it is related to testing and protractor but since I use the --production flag, these dev packages will not be installed.

best regards,
Christophe

Answer 1 · 2017-03-01T14:48:42.000Z

That updates the tools to run e2e tests. You should not care about that in production.

I will see if I can find an alternative solution for not having to worry about that.

Answer 2 · 2017-03-12T22:08:24.000Z

"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "node -e \"process.env.NODE_ENV != 'production' && process.exit(1)\" || npm run webdriver-update"
}

This fixed the issue for me by checking to see if the NODE_ENV is not equal to 'production' and if so, it exits. Otherwise in non-production environments it executes the script as per normal.