Changing --max-stack-size for grunt task - node.js

I'm running into the following error in my GruntJS script:
Maximum call stack size exceeded"
What's the proper syntax for invoking the node flag --max-stack-size= in my grunt command so I can set aside a larger amount of memory for the stack?

Unless you are doing some very high-level programming in GruntJS I think you may have a cyclic task registered.
If you name a task the same name as plugin it will run an infinite amount of times:
grunt.registerTask('uglify', ['uglify'])
This results in the task calling itself.
In order to verify what you're doing, run the grunt with --verbose (or --v) command to see what grunt is running.
For instance run grunt uglify --v and notice how many times it runs. This can be fixed easily by changing the task name to something else.
If however you're sure of what you're doing run grunt with --max-stack-size=10000
or whatever...

Install grunt-cli locally with npm install grunt-cli then call it locally with:
node --max-stack-size=val ./node_modules/.bin/grunt
Although likely you're getting that error because of an infinite recursion that should be fixed.

This should work on linux or mac:
node --stack-size=10000 `which grunt`
The 10000 can be replaced by whatever size you require.
The default is 984 on my mac and on an ubuntu server I've been working on lately.
Another option is to add this to your .bashrc, .bach_profile or equivalent:
alias grunt='node --stack-size=10000 `which grunt`'

Similar issue happend to me when I dynamicaly called tasks via grunt.task.run().
Seems that grunt's success callbacks filled tha NodeJs stack.
I performed manual edit of c:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\npm\grunt.cmd (on Windows). Add parameter supported by your version of node, e.g --stack_size=2000 (for details use node -help).

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How to run NodeJS CLI tools without having to type npx

TL;DR
I cannot execute commands such as tsc unless I include npx before it (e.g npx tsc). How can I fix this?
The title is a bad explanation of the problem I have.
Say I have installed an npm package with a CLI with it (typescript in this example). And the CLI is used like
tsc <filename> or just tsc. But whenever I try to do it like that, I get an error like
'tsc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
But... when I do
npx tsc
then it works!
So whats the problem?
The problem with doing npx tsc is because
npx is slow at executing commands
its annoying having to type npx and the front of every command.
And the thing is, this was originally not a problem with WSL.
Why dont you just use WSL?
I have always had problems with WSL (primarily permission issues due to security reasons) and so I uninstalled WSL and just used command prompt. I would have perferred using WSL but it was simply not an option.
Other Info:
I am using Windows command prompt.
I have installed the packages globally
So is there a way to just execute commands that way or is it Command prompts fault?
! this only works for Windows !
Ok, so I came across this post and thankfully, the first answer there was the solution!
Just add %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\npm to the path variable in system variables!
To access the system variables, press the Windows key, type Environment variables and click on Environment variables at the bottom of the window. The path variable can be found under User variables for (profile name).

echo $NODE_PATH returns two global installation paths

echo $NODE_PATH
returns
/Users/swills/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules::/Users/swills/npm/lib/node_modules
Running npm install -g express-generator installs express-generator in both:
/Users/swills/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules
and
/Users/swills/npm/lib/node_modules
Might this cause future dependency issues? If so, how can I fix this?
I've installed node several times for updates, and once or twice to avoid having to use sudo. I think that might have something to do with it. I vaguely remember using either the first (node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh) or second (only-git-all-the-way.sh) option from this github gist: https://gist.github.com/isaacs/579814
First are you sure that not both are needed in the environment variable? i.e does these two paths contain the exact same files?
Second if they are infact the same, use the "which" command to know which is the default one. For example if you have two different jdks installed, upon calling "which java" will return the path to the default one first.

NodeJS installation to jenkins : npm not found

Maybe someone can tell me what I missed installing nodeJS to jenkins, because when I want to execute shell script npm update I get error npm: not found.
I installed jenkins nodejs plugin then added installer:
After I created job with prams:
What I need to do more, to have accessible npm in any jenkins job?
It works for me. The only difference is that where you have a text box that reads "0.12.7", I have a popup menu that reads "Node.js 0.12.7". Maybe something has gone wrong and you should delete the installer and add it back?
Windows users, did you restart?
Do keep in mind that you need to restart active processes after installing npm.
During installation the folder of your npm.cmd is added to the PATH variable. However, active applications don't refresh their PATH variable automatically. That also holds for your active Jenkins service (and its child processes). They are still running with an old version of your PATH variable.
In other words, you need to restart the Jenkins service (or restart your entire system). Once restarted, Jenkins will have an updated PATH variable, and it will be able to find the npm.cmd processes and others.
What's wrong with using absolute paths?
Using the full path is not a solid solution. A package.json file can contain references to other cli processes (e.g. node, ng, react-scripts, npm-run-all, ...). You will probably have similar issues there. There is no way to keep up and reference all of them with full paths.

Jenkins build step fails when calling "npm" on mac-os-x Yosemite

Before I start, I want to say that I already checked these answers:
Jenkins build step fails on 'npm install <whatever>'
Jenkin's build failing on npm install
Now, I'm dealing with this issue for a while already and thus I tried a bunch of stuff.
Firstly, I installed node + npm via homebrew. A simple $ node -v and $ npm -v echoed the version v0.10.36 for node and v2.3.* for npm, which also means I HAVE THEM IN THE PATH and they work while called in the terminal.
Simply adding node -v; npm -v to the execute shell in Jenkins didn't do it. After a bit of tinkering I copied what $: which node yielded in the terminal to the above mentioned script, which now looked like this: /usr/local/bin/node and apparently that worked. The Jenkins build succeeded and 'node-v0.10.36' was proudly displayed in the console output.
When doing the same for 'npm' which happened to be /usr/local/bin/npm --version the computing gods weren't so merciful anymore. A big 'env: node: No such file or directory' error was thrown this time and the whole build failed.
The actual command that fails is
$ /bin/sh -xe /var/folders/wr/g_dl81tn5_x0t_yz3jw602cr0000gn/T/hudson8770480548136671253.sh and "surprisingly" when I run the same command in the terminal it succeeds.
I also uninstalled the homebrew node & npm versions and installed them afterwards via the package manager. Same results.
Ultimately I also did this: https://gist.github.com/DanHerbert/9520689, with no luck.
Notes:
I'm running Jenkins 1.613 and tried with 1.5**
I didn't create a "Jenkins" specific user but instead I'm using the admin. This happens to be the same user that Jenkins runs, since the who am i command inside the executable script yields the admin's user name.
sudo'ing doens't help
I'm also running the whole thing in a Virtual Environment - vagrant
I'm not running Jenkins as a deamon, as it's conflicting with xtools, but as a simple process
I also tried out jenkins-node plugin with various configs (can detail if needed)
Thanks a lot for your help, and let me know if you need any other info, screenshots, logs, etc.
I found my own solution. The problem was that the PATH although visible in shell was not exported for the Jenkins job, and so, the first workaround, as found here, was to export it in the actual script like so:
but this feels like a hack!
The right and elegant solution is to use Jenkins EnvInject Plugin and export the path in the added Properties content textarea on the configuration page, like so:
Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Global properties -> Environment variables

Node.js Cygwin not supported

I am trying to install node.js. I followed this tutorial and i am stuck in the middle.
When I write ./configure in my cygwin terminal it says "cygwin not supported". Please help me out
Thanks in advance.
Node in my experience runs fine in cygwin, what Node usually has EINVAL errors in seems to be MINTTY which is a terminal emulation 'skin' that is default to cygwin. I still am not sure why these EINVAL errors happen 100% but the following are the steps and tricks I use to get node working.
In my /cygwin/home/{username}/.bashrc I add node to path so cygwin can find it
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/"
If you run a 32 bit version of node:
export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/"
Then to make npm run without windows to linux issues I launch cygwin in admin mode then run:
dos2unix '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/npm'
At this point running files and most npm packages will run in MINTTY just fine, although every once and awhile you will run into EINVAL issues with certain npm packages as karma. Also you will not be able to run the interpreter directly in MINTTY, anytime I want to do these things I run:
cygstart /bin/bash
This will open a native cygwin bash.exe window, from here you run the interpreter or an any troubling package command that results in a EINVAL. It slightly sucks you have to do this but I rarely use this day to day, and I love MINTTY too much to not use it.
Also note that you can run any one line node code in MINTTY by just running something like:
node -e "console.log('hello node')"
As a simpler derivative of troy's answer for those just looking to install NPM packages:
Install Node.js with the Windows installer package.
Add it to the PATH with export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nodejs/" (obviously replacing the path to Node.js's installation directory with where you installed it).
There's a current bug in the Windows version that can be fixed by running mkdir -p ~/AppData/Roaming/npm. This is a bug for all of Windows and not just Cygwin. At some point of the future, you won't have to do this anymore, but the command shouldn't have any negative side effects.
Test it. Eg, npm install pretty-diff -g.
In order to be able to run the newly installed software, you'll need to add the install locations to your PATH. You can find these with npm bin -g and npm bin (the -g flag is the "global" installation location).
Not really anything special that you have to do to get it to run in Cygwin (although I can't say if everything works).
Use Console2, it allows you to run create tabs of CLI shells. It seems running cygwin inside console2 allows me to use node REPL just fine. I have no idea why :P
Follow this guide to add cygwin to console2:
http://blog.msbbc.co.uk/2009/11/configuring-console-2-and-bash-with.html
With Bjørn's suggestion (using Console2) and Soyuka's alias (steps here), my node.js v0.10.13 and npm v1.3.2 are now working under Babun v1.02, a Cygwin distribution.
For windows, Just run bash.exe in cmd, so that you could have a bash work around with cmd console directly, which could support ALL NODE WORKING PERFECTLY.
C:\Users\郷>bash
郷#CHIGIX ~
$ node
>
I'm using this wrapper in /usr/local/bin/node (note no extension!)
#!/bin/sh
_cmd="$(cygpath -lw -- "$1" )"
shift
"/proc/cygdrive/C/Program Files/nodejs/node.exe" "$_cmd" "$#"
This is far from perfect, as Node do not understand Cygwin directory tree, but works relatively well with relative names.
From Windows, run Cygwin.bat (instead of Cygwin Terminal) then in that run node: see and reply on this answer on this effectively-same question asked 1.5 years later.
Grab and run the node.js Windows installer.
In the Cygwin prompt type node
See if it works.

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