Ionic 1 does not run CLI commands such as `ionic info` or `ionic build ios`

[jgw96]

From @shotbyabel on May 6, 2016 18:36

Short description of the problem:

Not sure if me updating to Node 6 is causing all this.. but I am working on an Ionic 1 app with a remote team and lately our versions have not liked each other. I was wondering if the fact that I have also been working on Ionic 2 projects for whatever reason my CLI "thinks" these apps are also Ionic 2 and there for is shooting me the error below? (i know it makes no sense but I have no clue)

What behavior are you expecting?

I want to be able to run ionic commands like ionic info , ionic build ios etc.. and not get this error.. or message..

issue in detail

insert any relevant code between the above and below backticks

mymac ~/code/92_AAC/newApp on master[!]
$ ionic build ios
WARN: ionic.project has been renamed to ionic.config.json, please rename it.
Uh oh! Looks like you're missing a module in your gulpfile:
Cannot find module 'gulp'

Do you need to run `npm install`?

Other information: (e.g. stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, stackoverflow links, forum links, etc)

Which Ionic Version? 1.x or 2.x

Plunker that shows an example of your issue

For Ionic 1 issues - http://plnkr.co/edit/Xo1QyAUx35ny1Xf9ODHx?p=preview

For Ionic 2 issues - http://plnkr.co/edit/L8JN6w5mqwbMY2E14dbk?p=preview

Run ionic info from terminal/cmd prompt: (paste output below)

Copied from original issue: ionic-team/ionic-framework#6461

[jgw96]

Hey! Thanks for opening an issue with us! Most likely, this is related to node 6, as those commands should work, and do work for me (im on node 5.10.1). Would you mind downgrading to node 5 and testing? Also, since this issue is an issue related to the cli and not the framework im going to move this issue over to the ionic-cli repo. Ill continue the conversation with you over there. Thanks!

[shotbyabel]

@jgw96 Thanks! I downgraded to Node 5.9 and I have some "progress"? Perhaps you can tell me if I am headed in the right direction.. After running ionic build ios I got a new message along with the original one..

$ ionic build ios
******************************************************
 Dependency warning - for the CLI to run correctly,      
 it is highly recommended to install/upgrade the following:     

 Install ios-sim to deploy iOS applications. `npm install -g ios-sim` (may require sudo)
 Install ios-deploy to deploy iOS applications to devices. `npm install -g ios-deploy` (may require sudo)

******************************************************
WARN: ionic.project has been renamed to ionic.config.json, please rename it.
(node:11866) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, please update it to a more recent version.
Uh oh! Looks like you're missing a module in your gulpfile:
Cannot find module 'bower'

Do you need to run `npm install`?

[jgw96]

@shotbyabel No problem at all! So did you just git clone this project? If so then you should run npm install first.

[shotbyabel]

@jgw96 That's the thing.. I've never had to run npm install on this project before.. We have been working on this since February and I am just able to run commands all day with no issues this is all new.

[jgw96]

Hmm, can you check your project for a node_modules folder please? Are you all pushing your node_modules to github?

[shotbyabel]

ionic info now works again! So I wanted you to check my system info and the project ownsers too maybe I need to upgraded something else?

(node modules are there! :) and unfortunately these guys use SVN

MINE:

*Cordova CLI: 6.1.1
Gulp version: CLI version 1.2.1
Gulp local:
Ionic Version: 1.2.4
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.14
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.7.0
ios-deploy version: 1.8.6
ios-sim version: 5.0.3
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v5.9.1
Xcode version: Xcode 7.3.1 Build version 7D1014 *

OWNERs:
Cordova CLI: 6.1.1
Ionic Version: 1.3.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.14
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.7.0
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: 5.0.8
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v4.4.3
Xcode version: Xcode 7.3 Build version 7D175

[jgw96]

Awesome, is ionic build ios still giving an error? One thing that i would make sure of is that they are using npm 3 and not npm 2, you can see this with npm --version. We recommend using npm 3 as npm 2 has alot of what i would call "weirdness" haha.

[shotbyabel]

Still getting the error. I am really at lost at the moment lol.
I am tempted to run npm install but.. last time I did that I think it brought back the old apps config files.. (i dont know how to explain it) what we named the apps for iOs..

$ ionic build ios
******************************************************
 Dependency warning - for the CLI to run correctly,      
 it is highly recommended to install/upgrade the following:     

 Install ios-sim to deploy iOS applications. `npm install -g ios-sim` (may require sudo)
 Install ios-deploy to deploy iOS applications to devices. `npm install -g ios-deploy` (may require sudo)

******************************************************
WARN: ionic.project has been renamed to ionic.config.json, please rename it.
(node:12065) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, please update it to a more recent version.
Uh oh! Looks like you're missing a module in your gulpfile:
Cannot find module 'bower'

Do you need to run `npm install`?

[jgw96]

Haha its ok, we will get it figured out. Hmm, so one thing you could try instead of running npm install is to just run npm install bower since that seems to be the module your missing.

[shotbyabel]

@jgw96 I tried that.. and it did "something".. If you want.. take a look at my UPDATE 3 to see a photo and description of what happened after. (thanks for sticking around)

issue update 3

[jgw96]

No problem! Hmm from what im seeing it looks like you may need to do a git pull .

[shotbyabel]

@jgw96 these guys use SVN.. I did svn update which is equivalent to git pull oh man.. what a mess lol