Createapp CLI works on windows, but not linux

[haneefkassam]

Version of FoalTS: 2.7.1
OS: Ubuntu 20.04/ZorinOS 16
Node: 16.13.1 (via snap)

I have been trying to set up my Linux VM (have tried on ubuntu 20.04 and ZorinOS 16) for foalTS development and am running into an issue. The CLI foal createapp command doesn't throw any error (other than mentioning that "Initialization of git failed". This happens on windows as well). I have made 0 changes the base app.

However, when I try to run the app, it always fails with exit code 1

I've installed build-essential, gcc. On windows, the console clears and the app starts.

I can run node build/index.js and it'll start the app (but I don't get the benefits of the supervisor build).

Edit: I figured it out. turns out if I add --raw to the package.json file for the develop script, it works fine (note, this is only needed on linux, but doesn't affect the functionality of the app on windows). The develop script would then look like this (only showing relevant part of package.json):

{
    "scripts": {
        "develop": "npm run build && concurrently --raw \"tsc -p tsconfig.app.json -w\" \"supervisor -w ./build,./config -e js,json,yml --no-restart-on error ./build/index.js\"",
    }
}

[kingdun3284]

This should be the issue linking with #1023. It's caused by foal-cli using color js as a dependency. Simply add "colors": "1.4.0", to your dependency may solve your problem temporarily.

[haneefkassam]

This should be the issue linking with #1023. It's caused by foal-cli using color js as a dependency. Simply add "colors": "1.4.0", to your dependency may solve your problem temporarily.

Unfortunately this did not work (I did not try a fresh install/create of my app, but I did try globally installing the 1.4.0 version of colors with no luck).

[kingdun3284]

This should be the issue linking with #1023. It's caused by foal-cli using color js as a dependency. Simply add "colors": "1.4.0", to your dependency may solve your problem temporarily.

Unfortunately this did not work (I did not try a fresh install/create of my app, but I did try globally installing the 1.4.0 version of colors with no luck).

Okay, then this should be another bug. Sometimes, there are some errors will be omitted if you are not adding the -r flag of supervisor.

[LoicPoullain]

Hello @haneefkassam 👋

Could you confirm that in your package-lock.json this time, the version of colors is 1.4.0? We also released a new patch one hour ago. Could you try to run the following commands and tell us if it works with a new project? Thanks

npm i -g @foal/cli@2.7.2
foal createapp my-app

[haneefkassam]

Hi @LoicPoullain

The version of colors in my project's package-lock.json is 1.4.0. Confirmed.

I tried running the command you mentioned, but run into the same problem (which is resolved by adding the --raw flag to the concurrently command in package.json.

[haneefkassam]

Looks like this also affects the test script in the package.json (and I guess any of the scripts that leverage the concurrently package.

[LoicPoullain]

Fixed in v2.10