[BUG] prettier: command not found

[semseysandor]

What exactly happened?
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run prettier_action:

   - name: Check code-style
     uses: creyD/prettier_action@v4.2
     with:
       dry: true
       prettier_options: --check **/*.{md,yml}
   

2. Step failed

   Installing prettier...
   Prettifying files...
   /home/runner/work/_actions/creyD/prettier_action/v4.2/entrypoint.sh: line 74: prettier: command not found
   Files:
   Problem running prettier with --check **/*.{md,yml}
   Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
   

What should've happened?
Step should succeed or prettier should run at least.

Note

I've did some debugging:

• it seems prettier is not found because $PATH is off:

  echo PATH=$PATH
  PATH=Unknown command: "bin"
  
  To see a list of supported npm commands, run:
    npm help:/home/runner/.local/bin:/opt/pipx_bin:/home/runner/.cargo/bin:/home/runner/.config/composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/.ghcup/bin:/home/runner/.dotnet/tools:/snap/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
  

• running npm help confirm npm bin is not available

  npm <command>
  
  Usage:
  
  npm install        install all the dependencies in your project
  npm install <foo>  add the <foo> dependency to your project
  npm test           run this project's tests
  npm run <foo>      run the script named <foo>
  npm <command> -h   quick help on <command>
  npm -l             display usage info for all commands
  npm help <term>    search for help on <term>
  npm help npm       more involved overview
  
  All commands:
  
      access, adduser, audit, bugs, cache, ci, completion,
      config, dedupe, deprecate, diff, dist-tag, docs, doctor,
      edit, exec, explain, explore, find-dupes, fund, get, help,
      hook, init, install, install-ci-test, install-test, link,
      ll, login, logout, ls, org, outdated, owner, pack, ping,
      pkg, prefix, profile, prune, publish, query, rebuild, repo,
      restart, root, run-script, search, set, shrinkwrap, star,
      stars, start, stop, team, test, token, uninstall, unpublish,
      unstar, update, version, view, whoami
  
  Specify configs in the ini-formatted file:
      /home/runner/.npmrc
  or on the command line via: npm <command> --key=value
  
  More configuration info: npm help config
  Configuration fields: npm help 7 config
  
  npm@9.3.1 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
  

• check npm version

  npm version
  9.3.1
  

• In npm v9 npm bin is removed: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-24-npm-v9-0-0-released/#%E2%9A%A0%EF%B8%8F-notable-breaking-changes
• As $PATH is set by npm bin in

  prettier_action/action.yml

  Line 64 in dc62bca

  PATH=$(cd $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH; npm bin):$PATH

  it seems this solution won't work with npm v9

Conclusion

I've executed prettier with npm exec prettier and it worked, step succeeded. I'm not sure if that's the way. In that case npm install might be unneeded as according to the docs npm exec can fetch packages also. But I'm not too much into Node and npm so I leave this decision for you 😃

[david-allison]

Duplicate of #113

[semseysandor]

A workaround to use this action in your job: pin npm to version 8

- name: Install npm v8
  run: npm i -g npm@8

- name: Check code-style
  uses: creyD/prettier_action@v4.2
  with:
    dry: true
    prettier_options: --check **/*.{md,yml}

[semseysandor]

Duplicate of #113

Oh, yes it is. But here are the reasons also, not just a bug report.