vue inspect returns "Failed to locate @vue/cli-service." (fails to find global @vue/cli-service on Windows)

[folmert]

Version

3.0.0-rc.3

Reproduction link

https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/prototyping.html

Steps to reproduce

Just run vue inspect in the project directory.

What is expected?

It should return the config in the command line output.

What is actually happening?

Returns ERROR Failed to locate @vue/cli-service. Make sure you are in the right directory.
Also didn't work when I've explicitly installed @vue/cli-service globally (yarn global add @vue/cli-service)

It did work however when I installed @vue/cli-service locally (yarn add @vue/cli-service), but for my colleague who's using Mac it's working out of the box (without having to install cli-service locally). Perhaps it can be fixed on vue-cli side to find global cli-service? Maybe it's some path issue?

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Node version: 10.6.0.
OS: Windows 10.
Command line: Cmder, cmd (with admin rights).

[haoqunjiang]

The error is raised here:

vue-cli/packages/@vue/cli/lib/inspect.js

Lines 9 to 15 in fd1c0d5

	try {
	servicePath = resolve.sync('@vue/cli-service', { basedir: cwd })
	} catch (e) {
	const { error } = require('@vue/cli-shared-utils')
	error(`Failed to locate @vue/cli-service. Make sure you are in the right directory.`)
	process.exit(1)
	}

I think your colleague might have accidentally installed @vue/cli-service in an ancestor directory.

[biapar]

I've the same problem when copy the project folder from Mac to Windows.

[yyx990803]

I assume you are running vue inspect in a rapid prototyping project with no local deps - and this is expected because vue inspect is just an alias to vue-cli-service inspect and requires a locally installed @vue/cli-service.

We can try to make vue inspect work for the prototyping mode but I don't really see much value in this - in prototyping mode you can't tweak the webpack config anyway.