Trying to start with --v2 --ts throws an error

[brandyscarney]

From @KerryRitter on April 30, 2016 16:31

Here is my command line output:

c:\Workspaces\RevRadio\mobile>ionic start revradio --v2 --ts
Creating Ionic app in folder c:\Workspaces\RevRadio\mobile\revradio based on tabs project
Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic2-app-base/archive/typescript.zip
[=============================]  100%  0.0s
Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic2-starter-tabs/archive/typescript.zip
[=============================]  100%  0.0s
Installing npm packages...
Error with start undefined
Error Initializing app: There was an error with the spawned command: npminstall
There was an error with the spawned command: npminstall

Running the install without the --ts argument works as expected.

Copied from original issue: ionic-team/ionic2-app-base#24

[brandyscarney]

From @mhartington on April 30, 2016 23:58

What's your node version, npm version and ionic cli version

[brandyscarney]

From @KerryRitter on May 1, 2016 13:55

Sorry bout that.

npm -v = 3.3.12
node -v = 5.1.0
ionic-v = 2.0.0-beta.25

[brandyscarney]

From @vg33 on May 17, 2016 6:48

I'm having exactly the same issue, with the following versions:

npm -v = 3.3.12
node -v = 5.4.0
ionic -v = 2.0.0-beta.25

Any suggestions?

[KerryRitter]

After the latest update (or re-install), i'm no longer having this problem. Perhaps it is resolved.

[cfjedimaster]

I'm having the issue with Node 5.11. Will try updating to 5.4.

[cfjedimaster]

Sorry - ignore my last comment. I did a reinstall of Ionic and I'm not at beta.26. I still have the same issue, unless I use sudo to make the app.

So... maybe I was wrong to use sudo to install ionic? But I had done that before with v1 and had no problem making apps.

I don't quite see how using sudo to install the Ionic CLI would make the apps generated by it not work right unless run with sudo.

I know some folks recommend against using sudo when installing CLI apps globally, but I always thought it was more a suggestion then anything else.

[104player]

I'm having the same issue with

npm -v = 1.3.10
node -v = v0.10.25
ionic -v = 2.0.0-beta.30

(on Ubuntu 14.04)

I previously had ionic 1.0 installed,
but have run this as root:
npm uninstall -g ionic ; npm uninstall -g cordova ; npm cache clear ; npm cache clean
to clean up before installing the beta

** except in my case I get the same error with --v2 or with both --v2 and --ts
(using "blank" or "tabs" base project)

The following all give the same error:
ionic start beta2 --v2
ionic start beta2 blank --v2
ionic start betawesome blank --v2 --ts
sudo ionic start betawesome blank --v2 --ts

This Works:
ionic start dummy
(but of course I get a v1 app)

[vg33]

On OSX I resolved this by installing npm as non-root. I followed the steps in the following article: https://johnpapa.net/how-to-use-npm-global-without-sudo-on-osx/

Now it works like a charm.

[jthoms1]

@104player The beta requires at least node v0.12. Could you please update and try the command again?

[104player]

Thanks!
Good to know...
I'm just using the node and npm that Ubuntu 14.04 gives me at the moment.

• for now I am using Docker to get my node 5 as a workaround:

Dockerfile

FROM node:5-onbuild
RUN npm install -g ionic@beta

---

docker build -t ionic-beta .

docker run -t -i -v $HOME/git/ionic/:/ionic/ ionic-beta /bin/bash

then I can run it..

• still have to try a nice way to fix up permissions, for now doing
  chown -R 1000 .
  as needed

[jthoms1]

@104player Usually Ubuntu has old versions of node available within their distribution network. Luckly nodesource hosts new versions. If you would like to update your native os distro instead of using docker you can follow these instructions. https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#installation-instructions

[karthikarul20]

in my case, i was using very old npm (version less that less than 2.0).
i made it working by updating the npm to 3.9.5.