`no such file or directory` While installing js beautify in npm

Question

I get this error when i use npm -g install js-beautify

npm ERR! path /home/developer/software/nodejs/lib/node_modules/js-
beautify/js/bin/css-beautify.js
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall chmod
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod 
'/home/developer/software/nodejs/lib/node_modules/js-
beautify/js/bin/css-beautify.js'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/developer/.npm/_logs/2017-09-18T07_52_38_910Z-
debug.log

What can be done to solve this?

I am using node 8.5.0 an npm 5.3.0

Answer 1

JS-Beautify 1.7.0 is broken.

Explicitly install the last good version:

npm -g install [email protected]

… or wait for a fixed version to be released.

Answer 2

The fix for me was to add to package.json:

"devDependencies": { "js-beautify": "1.6.14",

and

"resolutions": { "js-beautify": "1.6.14" }

then delete the node_modules/ directory

and finaly reinstall all of the dependencies using npm install (for some reason yarn would fail - even after deleting yarn.lock)