Cannot run JHipster project right after creation - jhipster

Question

I'm unable to get a jhipster generated project running, right after generating it.
~/folder$ yo jhipster
Complete the "wizard" then
~/folder$ gradle bootRun
Boom! It fails on the "npmInstall" step. "bower install" and "npm install" work fine by themselves.
The exceptions (when running "gradle --stacktrace bootRun")
Caused by: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: A problem occurred starting process 'command 'npm''
at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle.setEndStateInfo(DefaultExecHandle.java:196)
at org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle.failed(DefaultExecHandle.java:325)
at org.gradle.process.internal.ExecHandleRunner.run(ExecHandleRunner.java:83)
... 1 more
Caused by: net.rubygrapefruit.platform.NativeException: Could not start 'npm'
at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.DefaultProcessLauncher.start(DefaultProcessLauncher.java:27)
at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.WrapperProcessLauncher.start(WrapperProcessLauncher.java:36)
at org.gradle.process.internal.ExecHandleRunner.run(ExecHandleRunner.java:65)
... 1 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "npm" (in directory "/<...>/workspace/netreon"): error=2, No such file or directory
at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.DefaultProcessLauncher.start(DefaultProcessLauncher.java:25)
... 3 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
... 4 more
Npm is available on the PATH though, installed with brew
$ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
$ which npm
/usr/local/bin/npm
$ node --version
v0.10.29
$ npm --version
2.5.0
$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_55"
$ javac -version
javac 1.7.0_55
.yo-rc.json configs:
{
"generator-jhipster": {
"baseName": "myproj",
"packageName": "com.myproj",
"packageFolder": "com/myproj",
"authenticationType": "oauth2",
"hibernateCache": "ehcache",
"clusteredHttpSession": "no",
"websocket": "spring-websocket",
"databaseType": "sql",
"devDatabaseType": "mysql",
"prodDatabaseType": "mysql",
"useCompass": true,
"buildTool": "gradle",
"frontendBuilder": "gulp",
"javaVersion": "7"
}
}
I think I have the latest version of jhipster generator, not sure how to check that though

Answer 1

Are you running as root using sudo -i? npm is rarely installed for root and that was my issue.
Just gradlew under your normal user