I have setup a new Symfony 5.2 project and added Webpack Encore on a shared Server with no root access.
Yarn is not available on this machine, so I used npm:
// setup new Symfony 5.2 project
symfony new sym5 --version=5.2 --full
...
cd sym5
// add Webpack Encore
composer require symfony/webpack-encore-bundle
npm install
...
// try to compile assets
npm run dev
I have made no changes to the webpack.config.js and asset/ files which have been automatically created. Running npm run dev leads to an Unexpected token error:
npm run dev
> @ dev /customers/123/webpages/sym5
> encore dev
/customers/123/webpages/sym5/node_modules/pkg-up/index.js:4
module.exports = async ({cwd} = {}) => findUp('package.json', {cwd});
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token (
at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Object.<anonymous> (/customers/123/webpages/sym5/node_modules/@symfony/webpack-encore/lib/config/parse-runtime.js:13:15)
npm ERR! Linux 3.18.117-pvops-xen-x64
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "dev"
npm ERR! node v6.11.3
npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! @ dev: `encore dev`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ dev script 'encore dev'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! encore dev
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /customers/123/webpages/sym5/npm-debug.log
Since the error is not reported in any my custom files, I assume that this is a problem of Node.js / Webpack itself? Is this correct?
The message says, that one should use the latest versions of node.js and npm. The versions available on the server (node v6.11.3 and npm v3.10.10) are indeed quite old but without root access I cannot change this, can I?
However, since the adding / installing Webpack Encore using these node.js and npm version worked without any problem, I wonder if using these old version is really the cause of the problem.
Is there anything I can do to find the actual cause and to solve the problem?
// /customers/123/webpages/sym5/npm-debug.log
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'run', 'dev' ]
2 info using npm@3.10.10
3 info using node@v6.11.3
4 verbose run-script [ 'predev', 'dev', 'postdev' ]
5 info lifecycle @~predev: @
6 silly lifecycle @~predev: no script for predev, continuing
7 info lifecycle @~dev: @
8 verbose lifecycle @~dev: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 verbose lifecycle @~dev: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/customers/123/webpages/sym5/node_modules/.bin:/customers/123/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/customers/123/.gem/bin
10 verbose lifecycle @~dev: CWD: /customers/123/webpages/sym5
11 silly lifecycle @~dev: Args: [ '-c', 'encore dev' ]
12 silly lifecycle @~dev: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
13 info lifecycle @~dev: Failed to exec dev script
14 verbose stack Error: @ dev: `encore dev`
14 verbose stack Exit status 1
14 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:255:16)
14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
14 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
14 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14)
14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
14 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
14 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16)
14 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:230:5)
15 verbose pkgid @
16 verbose cwd /customers/123/webpages/sym5
17 error Linux 3.18.117-pvops-xen-x64
18 error argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "dev"
19 error node v6.11.3
20 error npm v3.10.10
21 error code ELIFECYCLE
22 error @ dev: `encore dev`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the @ dev script 'encore dev'.
23 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
23 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the package,
23 error not with npm itself.
23 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
23 error encore dev
23 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
23 error npm bugs
23 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
23 error npm owner ls
23 error There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
