#conduitvc/dynamodb-emulator#0.5.3 install error - node.js

Question

Error while installing #conduitvc/dynamodb-emulator#0.5.3 install with npm
All other npm install runs and is being installed using vscode in a Windows environment.
$npm install
> #conduitvc/dynamodb-emulator#0.5.3 install C:\Users\user\Desktop\temp\node_modules\#conduitvc\dynamodb-emulator
> download --extract -o emulator https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dynamodb-local/dynamodb_local_latest.zip && ./install.sh
'.'is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
npm WARN #conduitvc/appsync-emulator-serverless#0.14.5 requires a peer of aws-appsync#>= 1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of ioredis#>=2.3.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of msgpack-lite#>=0.1.20 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of zmq#* but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of zeromq#* but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of amqp#>=0.2.4 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of amqplib#>=0.5.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of mqtt#>=2.3.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of mongodb#>=2.1.18 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of kerberos#~0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of qlobber-fsq#>=6.1.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/ascoltatori#4.3.0-patch.2 requires a peer of kafka-node#>=0.5.8 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/mosca#2.8.3-patch.3 requires a peer of leveldown#~1.4.3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/mosca#2.8.3-patch.3 requires a peer of amqp#~0.2.4 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/mosca#2.8.3-patch.3 requires a peer of ioredis#^1.15.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #conduitvc/mosca#2.8.3-patch.3 requires a peer of mongodb#~2.1.4 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #graphql-modules/core#0.7.5 requires a peer of graphql#^14.1.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN #graphql-modules/di#0.7.5 requires a peer of reflect-metadata#^0.1.12 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN eslint-plugin-prettier#3.1.1 requires a peer of eslint#>= 5.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN eslint-plugin-prettier#3.1.1 requires a peer of prettier#>= 1.13.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN eslint-config-prettier#6.7.0 requires a peer of eslint#>=3.14.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#2.1.2 (node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#2.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#1.2.9 (node_modules\watchpack\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#1.2.9: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents#1.2.9 (node_modules\sane\node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents#1.2.9: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! #conduitvc/dynamodb-emulator#0.5.3 install: `download --extract -o emulator https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dynamodb-local/dynamodb_local_latest.zip && ./install.sh`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the #conduitvc/dynamodb-emulator#0.5.3 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\user\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-12-11T04_01_59_301Z-debug.log
I also checked the environment variable.
How do I solve it?

Answer 1

I had the same issue and I'm afraid there's nothing we can do. The installation script for this node module is trying to execute ./install.sh but Windows does not understand the . as a command to execute a file. If you were to install this node module on Linux, it would work because this OS will understand ./ as an attempt to execute install.sh, whereas Windows can't do that.
A workaround would be to download all the source code files from their repository and do a manual installation, but as of today I could not find a public repository for this node module.