[BUG] Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')

[talatkuyuk]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

This issue exists in the latest npm version

• I am using the latest npm

Current Behavior

I develop a nextjs application. I want to use react-table package specific version from github. I tried the below command in the terminal:

npm install git://github.com/tanstack/react-table.git#v8.0.0-alpha.51

It starts to download but stucked after a while and ended with the error Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')

Here is the npm log:

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109 verbose stack TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')
109 verbose stack     at updateNodes (/Users/talatkuyuk/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:1177:44)
109 verbose stack     at Arborist.[saveIdealTree] (/Users/talatkuyuk/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:1344:11)
109 verbose stack     at Arborist.reify (/Users/talatkuyuk/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:156:31)
109 verbose stack     at async Install.exec (/Users/talatkuyuk/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.0/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/commands/install.js:159:5)
109 verbose stack     at async module.exports (/Users/talatkuyuk/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.0/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli.js:66:5)
110 verbose cwd /Users/talatkuyuk/MyCodeRepo/nextprojects/amazon-ht-web
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113 verbose node v16.15.0
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115 error Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')
116 verbose exit 1
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118 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1651116372524
119 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:save 1651116463410
120 verbose code 1
121 error A complete log of this run can be found in:
121 error     /Users/talatkuyuk/.npm/_logs/2022-04-28T03_26_12_342Z-debug-0.log

Expected Behavior

I expect the npm install the react-table package from GitHub

Steps To Reproduce

1. It is nextjs application
2. Run 'npm install git://github.com/tanstack/react-table.git#v8.0.0-alpha.51'
3. See error...Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')

Environment

• npm: v8.5.5
• Node.js: v16.15.0
• OS Name: MacBook Pro
• System Model Name: Mac OS
• npm config:

; node bin location = /Users/talatkuyuk/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.0/bin/node
; cwd = /Users/talatkuyuk/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist
; HOME = /Users/talatkuyuk
; Run `npm config ls -l` to show all defaults.

[PedroC88]

I'm having the same error installing ADF Utilities:

package.json

{
    "scripts": {
        "build": "node node_modules/@microsoft/azure-data-factory-utilities/lib/index"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "@microsoft/azure-data-factory-utilities": "^0.1.5"
    }
}

npm version

{
  npm: '8.8.0',
  node: '16.15.0',
  [...]
}

logs

0 verbose cli C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js
1 info using npm@8.8.0
2 info using node@v16.15.0
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75 verbose stack TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')
75 verbose stack     at updateNodes (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\@npmcli\arborist\lib\arborist\reify.js:1177:44)
75 verbose stack     at Arborist.[saveIdealTree] (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\@npmcli\arborist\lib\arborist\reify.js:1344:11)
75 verbose stack     at Arborist.reify (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\@npmcli\arborist\lib\arborist\reify.js:156:31)
75 verbose stack     at async Install.exec (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\commands\install.js:156:5)
75 verbose stack     at async module.exports (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\lib\cli.js:78:5)
76 verbose cwd C:\Users\username\source\repos\project
77 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.22000
78 verbose node v16.15.0
79 verbose npm  v8.8.0
80 error Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')
81 verbose exit 1
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85 verbose unfinished npm timer auditReport:getReport 1651156978640
86 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:save 1651156978704
87 verbose code 1
88 error A complete log of this run can be found in:
88 error     C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-04-28T14_42_58_414Z-debug-0.log

[PedroC88]

Alright, so here's a bit more detail, perhaps it's a layer-8 error?

• With the package.json at the root label the npm install command runs successfully
• With the package.json file in the pipelines folder and running npm install from the pipelines folder it runs successfully
• With the package.json file in the pipelines folder and running npm install .\pipelines from the root folder it fails

I also realized that even with the error the packages are (or appear to be) restored.

P.S. this is all running on a Windows 11 Terminal with a PowerShell 7.2.3 session

[lovedder1995]

I had this issue too.

The problem was because when I started a proyect (Alpinejsx) I inmediatly used npm i nano-jsx.

The solution was to use first npm init to create a "complete" pacakge.json file.

[JeremyEllingham]

I'm also getting this error. I'm on npm 8.11.0.

$ npm install https://github.com/JeremyEllingham/webassemblyjs --loglevel verbose

...
npm timing reify:trash Completed in 165ms
npm timing command:install Completed in 129049ms
npm verb stack TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')
npm verb stack     at updateNodes (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:1178:44)
npm verb stack     at Arborist.[saveIdealTree] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:1345:11)
npm verb stack     at Arborist.reify (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js:156:31)
npm verb stack     at async Install.exec (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/commands/install.js:156:5)
npm verb stack     at async module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli.js:78:5)
npm verb cwd /Users/jeremy/project/selene-wallet
npm verb Darwin 21.6.0
npm verb node v16.16.0
npm verb npm  v8.11.0
npm ERR! Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'spec')
npm verb exit 1
npm timing npm Completed in 129220ms
npm verb unfinished npm timer reify 1661607103046
npm verb unfinished npm timer reify:save 1661607232091
npm verb code 1

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/jeremy/.npm/_logs/2022-08-27T13_31_42_874Z-debug-0.log

Should be reproducible for anyone else.

[WilcoFiers]

Had this issue too. The problem turned out to come from package.json not having a name property. Adding that in solved the issue for me.

[corngood]

For me, this was caused by having node.exe next to package.json in the root of our tree. Moving it into any other directory fixed the problem. NPM treats wherever the node binary lives as the 'distro root' and does some special magic.

[daniel-rebolledo]

I have the same problem, in my case running npm install react react-dom. On my package.json I have these two packages as peerDependencies, if I move those to devDependencies and then run npm install the error is gone and all the packages are installed. I always have to move back those packages to peerDependencies after that.

npm: 8.11.0
node: 16.15.1

[prathyushSunny]

@daniel-rebolledo Thanks! Your approached resolved it. I had the same issue while doing npm i react but not anymore.

[que273]

I appear to have the same issue as @daniel-rebolledo with peerDependencies. Oddly for me it was working with registry.npmjs.org but not when I switched to a private mirror registry. The issue went away when I specified the //legacy-peer-deps=true option to the registry in .npmrc

[Shhad]

@que273 yes! I have same config field in .npmrc . Do you know why it behaves like that?

[zloirock]

I have this issue after moving cd path && npm i -> npm i --prefix path, https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/actions/runs/3452139442/jobs/5761893828, diff: zloirock/core-js@e503cc2

[JonathanMerklin]

Thought I'd call out that I was experiencing this when migrating a module (in our internal registry) to be built in and compatible with Node 18 / the latest NPM (the module had been around since the Node 0.x days, and its purpose was "install this one package as a devDependency in order to get a bunch of unit testing tooling packages at once") and was receiving this when trying to install chai-enzyme regardless of whether it was a peer or dev dependency.

Fortunately, for us, we weren't really "using" chai-enzyme in the module or in anything we owned, so we were able to just throw in the migration guide "no longer including chai-enzyme, and since you should prefer <alternativeMoreModernLibrariesAndMechanismsForUnitTestingWeAreUsingInOtherPlaces />, if you are using chai-enzyme in your extant test code, you're on your own".

The point: if you're running into this, you could try removing individual packages one-at-a-time (and then in pairs, and then in triplets, etc.) until you no longer see this behavior, to isolate a problem dependency or set thereof, but from there the prescription would be entirely context-dependent.

[sickopickle]

I have this issue when I fork a package. The original package installs fine, but the forked version doesn't.

Original version: https://github.com/BenJeau/react-native-draw
Forked version: https://github.com/sickopickle/react-native-draw

I made no changes so I don't know why this would happen.