Unable to install parcel@next without internet access

[boyeborg]

🐛 bug report

I'm unable to install parcel@next on a computer without internet access.
At work, I do most of my work in an air gapped network (i.e. no internet connection). I usually install NPM packages by copying them over to a local NPM registry within our air gapped network, and then installing them as normal (npm/yarn install whatever). This worked for parcel v1, but does no longer work for parcel v2.

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

npm i -g parcel@next

🤔 Expected Behavior

Parcel gets installed on the computer.

😯 Current Behavior

It stops at the @parcel/watcher trying to run prebuild-install -r napi || node-gyp rebuild. Since the computer doesn't have internet access, prebuild-install fails with an error, and the installation gets cancelled.

[mischnic]

prebuild-install fails with an error, and the installation gets cancelled.

That's why node-gyp rebuild should run as a fallback. Is there an error from that as well?

Which OS are you running?

[boyeborg]

@mischnic I'm running windows 10, and get the same error with both CMD and PowerShell. I first got an error from node-gyp because it requires python 2.7 (which I dit not have installed). But after installing python 2.7, I get this error:

npm i -g parcel
C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm\parcel -> C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\parcel\lib\bin.js

> @parcel/watcher@2.0.0-alpha.4 install C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\parcel\node_modules\@parcel\watcher
> prebuild-install -r napi || node-gyp rebuild

prebuild-install WARN install getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN github.com github.com:443

C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\parcel\node_modules\@parcel\watcher>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: This is most likely not a problem with node-gyp or the package itself and
gyp ERR! stack is related to network connectivity. In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad
gyp ERR! stack network settings.
gyp ERR! stack     at Request.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\install.js:197:21)
gyp ERR! stack     at Request.emit (events.js:198:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Request.onRequestError (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\request\request.js:881:8)
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:198:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:392:9)
gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:198:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3)
gyp ERR! stack     at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\parcel\node_modules\@parcel\watcher
gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @parcel/watcher@2.0.0-alpha.4 install: `prebuild-install -r napi || node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @parcel/watcher@2.0.0-alpha.4 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-01-30T07_56_03_166Z-debug.log

[mischnic]

The node-gyp error message isn't very detailed.
What I do know is that node-gyp downloads a zip containing header files for the Node version you're running (and caches them somewhere in the home directory). Maybe that's why it reports a network error as well.

[boyeborg]

I dug a little deeper, and was able to get node-gyp not to download anything, however, I'm still stuck with an error.

What I did:

1. Download the node header for my node version (12.14.1): https://nodejs.org/download/release/12.14.1/node-12.14.1-headers.tar.gz
2. Add it to npm config: npm config set tarball "/path/to/headers.tar.gz"
3. Download a zipped version of the node source from https://github.com/nodejs/node
4. Unzip it and add it to npm config: npm config set nodedir "/path/to/node"

This seems to work, but I get this error from node-gyp:

C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\parcel\node_modules\@parcel\watcher>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
gyp: name 'v8_enable_pointer_compression' is not defined while evaluating condition 'v8_enable_pointer_compression == 1' in binding.gyp while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:351:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:223:5)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\parcel\node_modules\@parcel\watcher
gyp ERR! node -v v12.14.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @parcel/watcher@2.0.0-alpha.4 install: `prebuild-install -r napi || node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @parcel/watcher@2.0.0-alpha.4 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\boyeborg\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-01-30T09_11_13_581Z-debug.log

I'm not going to investigate any further, since all my co-workers would have to do this in order build the app I'm currently working on if I was to use parcel v2. However, I really hope this will work before parcel v2 is released, otherwise I think we would need to move to another build/bundler tool.

[mischnic]

We should investigate just including the binaries in the npm tarball (regarding file size).