esm%27 - Not Found when trying to re-create

[Braunson]

Trying to build this locally (Win 10, Node v12.14.1) and I'm getting:

> npx --node-arg '-r esm' gatsby develop
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/esm%27 - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404  'esm'@latest' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 Your package name is not valid, because
npm ERR! 404  1. name can no longer contain special characters ("~'!()*")

[wesbos]

Try change the single quotes in package.json for start command to \”

[Braunson]

@wesbos After doing so I get this..

npm run develop

> project@1.0.0 develop C:\Users\Braunson\Documents\GitHub\project
> npx --node-arg "-r esm" gatsby develop

ERROR: --node-arg/-n can only be used on packages with node scripts.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! project@1.0.0 develop: `npx --node-arg "-r esm" gatsby develop`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the project@1.0.0 develop 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\Braunson\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-01-14T23_49_20_433Z-debug.log

Looks like this is related but dated.. npm/npx#5

[HugoDF]

@Braunson which version of npm are you using?

[Braunson]

@HugoDF 6.13.6

[wesbos]

Need some windows users in here

[transiient]

npm/npx#5 seems to be the issue, you're right. Could you use MINGW or WSL to build instead? @Braunson

[HugoDF]

@Braunson Apparently you can also downgrade npm to make it work see npm/npx#5 (comment)

[wesbos]

Thanks for figuring this out - going to close it as it's not a problem with the repo. Hopefully will serve as reference