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{ "author": "Zed A. Shaw", "date": "Dec 30, 2022", "has_image": false, "tag": "Advice", "icon": "bomb", "summary": "Short tips, tricks, and common footguns you'll run into with solutions." }
Tips, Tricks, & Footguns
This is just a list of short bits of advice that solve various problems you'll run into. A lot of these are taken out of the other documentation and then simplified for a quick note. Many times you can search for the error message that's causing you problems and there will be a solution. The reason this file exists is because there's all sorts of little things that don't deserve their own page, but still need solutions published.
Install Error with Playwright
In theory you shouldn't need playwright to download browsers, so just tell it not to.
PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1 npm install
This isn't as needed on Linux as OSX, because the Playwright project forces people to upgrade their OS by claiming all versions of their project can't support any slightly older Safari versions. You also just don't need Safari, so skip the download.
Errors Related to node-gyp
If you get errors related to node-gyp then read this github page. It says that npm updates don't update the node-gyp it uses internally. Depending on your version you will have to run different commands, but this works for 7,8, and 9 versions:
npm explore npm/node_modules/@npmcli/run-script -g -- npm_config_global=false npm install node-gyp@latest
Errors with node-pre-gyp
There's also an issue with installing node-pre-gyp where it seems you need to install @mapbox/node-pre-gyp and also node-pre-gyp. I have to install both but you might be able to use module-alias as described in this blog post.
Linux Console Error on bando.js init
On some versions of Linux you may get a weird error Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console when the commands/init.js script tries to run Node's execSync. Currently I have no idea why this error happens, as it doesn't happen on any Linux I run. If you have an idea what's causing this, please let me know.