node-gyp fails to build @parcel/watcher on node:18 image but succeeds with node:18-bullseye

[DreamwareDevelopment]

🐛 bug report

I'm using NX which has a dependency on parcel and when building my image I got a node-gyp failure. Following along with this isssue I changed the image to bullseye and boom, it works. Not really sure why though.

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

package.json

{
  "name": "@dreamware/source",
  "private": true,
  "type": "module",
  "dependencies": {
    "@fastify/autoload": "~5.7.1",
    "@fastify/middie": "^8.3.0",
    "@fastify/sensible": "~5.2.0",
    "@fastify/static": "^6.11.1",
    "@nx/devkit": "16.7.4",
    "@swc/helpers": "~0.5.0",
    "axios": "^1.0.0",
    "cross-env": "^7.0.3",
    "dotenv": "^16.3.1",
    "fastify": "~4.23.0",
    "fastify-plugin": "~4.5.0",
    "lightweight-charts": "^4.0.1",
    "react": "18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "18.2.0",
    "react-router-dom": "6.11.2",
    "sirv": "^2.0.3",
    "tslib": "^2.3.0",
    "vite-plugin-ssr": "^0.4.140"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@nx-go/nx-go": "^2.7.0",
    "@nx/cypress": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/esbuild": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/eslint-plugin": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/jest": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/js": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/linter": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/node": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/plugin": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/react": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/vite": "16.7.4",
    "@nx/workspace": "16.7.4",
    "@nxlv/python": "^16.1.2",
    "@swc-node/register": "~1.4.2",
    "@swc/cli": "~0.1.62",
    "@swc/core": "~1.3.51",
    "@testing-library/react": "14.0.0",
    "@types/jest": "^29.4.0",
    "@types/node": "18.14.2",
    "@types/react": "18.2.14",
    "@types/react-dom": "18.2.6",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "5.62.0",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "5.62.0",
    "@vitejs/plugin-react": "~4.0.0",
    "cypress": "^12.16.0",
    "esbuild": "^0.17.17",
    "eslint": "8.46.0",
    "eslint-config-prettier": "8.1.0",
    "eslint-plugin-cypress": "2.14.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "2.27.5",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "6.7.1",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "7.32.2",
    "eslint-plugin-react-hooks": "4.6.0",
    "jest": "^29.4.1",
    "jest-environment-jsdom": "^29.4.1",
    "jest-environment-node": "^29.4.1",
    "jsdom": "~22.1.0",
    "nx": "16.7.4",
    "nx-cloud": "16.4.0",
    "prettier": "^2.6.2",
    "sass": "^1.55.0",
    "ts-jest": "^29.1.0",
    "typescript": "~5.1.3",
    "vavite": "^2.0.1",
    "vite": "~4.3.9",
    "vite-tsconfig-paths": "~4.2.0",
    "vitest": "~0.32.0"
  },
}

Dockerfile

FROM node:18

WORKDIR /

COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
RUN yarn install --production --frozen-lockfile
...

🤔 Expected Behavior

Parcel should build on Node:18 image

😯 Current Behavior

From Node:18 image

#8 27.06 error /node_modules/@parcel/watcher: Command failed.
#8 27.06 Exit code: 1
#8 27.06 Command: node-gyp-build
#8 27.06 Arguments: 
#8 27.06 Directory: /node_modules/@parcel/watcher
#8 27.06 Output:
#8 27.06 node:events:495
#8 27.06       throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
#8 27.06       ^
#8 27.06 
#8 27.06 Error: spawn node-gyp ENOENT
#8 27.06     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:284:19)
#8 27.06     at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:477:16)
#8 27.06     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
#8 27.06 Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
#8 27.06     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12)
#8 27.06     at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:477:16)
#8 27.06     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
#8 27.06   errno: -2,
#8 27.06   code: 'ENOENT',
#8 27.06   syscall: 'spawn node-gyp',
#8 27.06   path: 'node-gyp',
#8 27.06   spawnargs: [ 'rebuild' ]
#8 27.06 }
#8 27.06 
#8 27.06 Node.js v18.18.0
#8 27.06 info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
#8 ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c yarn install --production --frozen-lockfile" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
------
 > [3/7] RUN yarn install --production --frozen-lockfile:
27.06     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
27.06   errno: -2,
27.06   code: 'ENOENT',
27.06   syscall: 'spawn node-gyp',
27.06   path: 'node-gyp',
27.06   spawnargs: [ 'rebuild' ]
27.06 }
27.06 
27.06 Node.js v18.18.0
27.06 info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.

💻 Code Sample

I believe with the package.json and Dockerfile you should be able to repro it on an M1 Mac.

🌍 Your Environment

Software	Version(s)
Parcel	@parcel/watcher@2.0.4
Node	18.18.0
npm/Yarn	yarn 1.22.19
Operating System	OSX 13.5.2 (22G91)

[theskcd]

Hey guys! We are seeing a similar issue on our prod deployment on M1 machines, it broke 2 days ago but was working before that.

[theofrgs]

Hello, on mac too, same error, does somoene on linux or windows have this issues ?

[filipsuk]

We had a same issue since few days ago in our gitlab pipelines running on arm cpus. We reverted from node:18 docker image to an older version node@sha256:c85dc4392f44f5de1d0d72dd20a088a542734445f99bed7aa8ac895c706d370d and it worked.

[kmashint]

I'm seeing the same "binding.gyp not found" on both Windows 10 with Python 3.12 and OSX 12.6.5 with Python 3.10. I've tried both node.js 18 and 16, maybe I'll try a slightly older minor version of node.js. Someone on stackoverflow.com mentioned that node.js 17 worked, but that's not LTS. node-gyp is painful.

[genffy]

try use npm i --ignore-scripts

[rconjoe]

Experienced this as well on vercel CI runners running pnpm install on the 18.x runtime. @genffy's fix appears to have solved the issue but I haven't figured out why. thanks @genffy

[cyrus-za]

gentify's issue means it wont do any postinstall which means it wont try and install parcel-watcher. This works if thats the only postinstall one needs, but in our case we got several tools we need with postinstall so that command won't work for us.

[mischnic]

See parcel-bundler/watcher#156