"node-gyp rebuild" error in mac

Question

I wanted to follow this page to run JSBin locally.

I just installed xcode 8.2 in my mac. Now, npm -v returns 3.10.9; node -v returns v7.2.1. However, npm install raised errors:

/Users/softtimur/Startup/WebProjects/jsbin$ npm install

> [email protected] install /Users/softtimur/Startup/WebProjects/jsbin/node_modules/hashring
> node-gyp rebuild

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/hashvalue/src/hashvalue.o
In file included from ../src/hashvalue.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h:189:68: error: too many arguments to function call, expected at most 2, have 4
    return v8::Signature::New(v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), receiver, argc, argv);
...
...
...
...
fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]
13 warnings and 20 errors generated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/hashvalue/src/hashvalue.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:215:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 16.1.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/node/7.2.1/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/softtimur/Startup/WebProjects/jsbin/node_modules/hashring
gyp ERR! node -v v7.2.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of casperjs@>= 1.1.0-beta3 but none was installed.
npm ERR! Darwin 16.1.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/7.2.1/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v7.2.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
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 hashring package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs hashring
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls hashring
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/softtimur/Startup/WebProjects/jsbin/npm-debug.log

Does anyone know what's wrong here?

Answer 1

The problem is that hashring v3.0.0 depends on an older version of nan (v1.3.x), which is not compatible with recent versions of node. It should be noted that as of this writing, the current version of hashring (v3.2.0) no longer contains an addon, it's javascript only.

The hashring dependency comes from jsbin's memcached dependency, which is currently hard coded to a specific git commit hash. There was a PR to update this dependency a number of months ago but was apparently dismissed because the maintainer(s) are apparently not interested in supporting modern versions of node. You may want to create an issue on their tracker to voice your concern about node compatibility.

Answer 2

Downgrade Node to v10, like this:

brew uninstall node

brew install node@10

brew link --force --overwrite node@10

npm i should finish without errors now.