node build -all on Windows 11: 'Command failed: grunt'

[serg0307]

Hello, my new friends.
I get an error while running node build --all:

Fetching EspoCRM repository...
  Downloading EspoCRM archive from Github...
  Unzipping...
Installing EspoCRM instance...
  Creating config...
  Npm install...
  Building...
node:internal/errors:984
  const err = new Error(message);
              ^

Error: Command failed: grunt
    at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:984:15)
    at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:538:14)
    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:890:11)
    at Object.execSync (node:child_process:962:15)
    at buildEspo (file:///D:/work/FORT/extentions/fort2/node_modules/espo-extension-tools/build.js:284:8)
    at file:///D:/work/FORT/extentions/fort2/node_modules/espo-extension-tools/build.js:205:9
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at install (file:///D:/work/FORT/extentions/fort2/node_modules/espo-extension-tools/build.js:199:12)
    at file:///D:/work/FORT/extentions/fort2/node_modules/espo-extension-tools/build.js:28:25 {
  status: 3,
  signal: null,
  output: [ null, null, Buffer(0) [Uint8Array] [] ],
  pid: 21700,
  stdout: null,
  stderr: Buffer(0) [Uint8Array] []
}

Node.js v20.14.0

Steps to recreate:

1. git clone https://github.com/espocrm/ext-template
2. Create config.json by copying config-default.json
3. Create config.php with text
   <?php return [ 'useCacheInDeveloperMode' => true, ];
4. Run node build -all

I run Win11, grunt is installed (double checked).
Any ideas where I should look at?
Thanks in advance.

[arkadiyasuratov]

Just out of curiosity, if you open node_modules/espo-extension-tools/build.js and change this line:

cp.execSync("grunt internal", {cwd: cwd + '/site', stdio: ['ignore', 'ignore', 'pipe']});

to:

cp.execSync("npx grunt internal", {cwd: cwd + '/site', stdio: ['ignore', 'ignore', 'pipe']});

Does it work?

[yurikuzn]

Try cd site and run grunt manually. Just to figure out why it does not run.

[serg0307]

Thanks for such a quick reaction. npx grunt internal worked.

[arkadiyasuratov]

I vote +1 to change it in the upstream. I find npx much more consistent in my internal tooling. Thoughts?

[yurikuzn]

Is it a new necessity to run it with npx? It works without npx on Linux and Windows 10 for me.

[yurikuzn]

Maybe it's because grunt is installed globally in all my environments.

[serg0307]

It looked like this in my case.

cp.execSync("grunt", {cwd: cwd + '/site', stdio: ['ignore', 'ignore', 'pipe']});

Seems like internal does the trick

[arkadiyasuratov]

Then it might be a different issue, I think you have an outdated package haha

[arkadiyasuratov]

Make sure you have at least "espo-extension-tools": "github:espocrm/extension-tools#0.1.8" in your package.json.

[yurikuzn]

internal builds only libs and css, skipping other stuff. Maybe problem somewhere with other stuff, e.g. composer or npm.

[serg0307]

[serg0307]

Then it might be a different issue, I think you have an outdated package haha

True. I found out that current version of espo-extension-tools package is 0.2.0 i manually changed it from 0.1.8 in package-lock.json and it has built with no errors.

Thank you for helping me out, guys.