npm - not installed; illegal characters in path

Beau D'Amore Published at Dev

Beau D'Amore

Inherited a broken NLog project from a long-gone co-worker...

VS2015 update 2
Latest Node install
Latest npm update 3.10.3
'.net 5.0' project (pre-core 1.0)

My npm node always says 'npm - not installed'

When I right click, I instantly get 'illegal characters in path'

here's my package.json

{
"version": "0.0.0",
"name": "asp.net",
"devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "^3.9.0",
    "gulp-bower": "^0.0.11",
    "gulp-concat": "^2.6.0",
    "gulp-install": "^0.6.0",
    "gulp-sass": "^2.1.1",
    "gulp-uglify": "^1.5.1",
    "gulp-util": "^3.0.7",
    "gulp-watch": "^4.3.5",
    "run-sequence": "^1.1.5",
    "browser-sync": "^2.10.0",
    "gulp-filter": "^3.0.1",
    "main-bower-files": "^2.9.0",
    "gulp-rename": "^1.2.2",
    "gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.6.0"
}

here's my project.json:

{
"webroot": "wwwroot",
"version": "1.0.0-*",
"dependencies": {
    "EntityFramework.Commands": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Authentication.Cookies": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Diagnostics": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Diagnostics.Entity": "7.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework": "3.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.IISPlatformHandler": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers": "6.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Session": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Server": "3.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNet.Tooling.Razor": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.NLog": "1.0.0-rc1-final",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.BrowserLink.Loader": "14.0.0-rc1-final",
    "MvcWebApiCors": "0.3.0"
},
"commands": {
    "web": "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel",
    "ef": "EntityFramework.Commands"
},
"frameworks": {
    "dnx451": {
  "dependencies": {
    "Rally.RestApi": "1.0.0-*"
  }
    }
},
"exclude": [
    "wwwroot",
    "node_modules",
    "bower_components"
],
"publishExclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "bower_components",
    "**.kproj",
    "**.user",
    "**.vspscc"
],
"scripts": {
    "postrestore": [ "npm install" ],
    "prepare": [ "gulp" ]
}

Here's my Bower.json

{
"name": "WebApplication",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
    "bootstrap": "^4.0.0-alpha.2",
    "signalr": "^2.2.0",
    "font-awesome": "^4.5.0",
    "moment": "^2.11.0",
    "Chart-js": "^1.0.2",
    "tether": "^1.1.1",
    "bootstrap-daterangepicker": "2.1.17",
    "handlebars": "^4.0.5",
    "chosen": "^1.4.2"
}

global.json

{
"projects": [
"src",
"wrap"
],
"sdk": {
"version": "1.0.0-rc1-update1"
}

The overall problem is that none of the css/styles are showing. The site looks skeletal compared to what's on our iis box.

Beau D'Amore

Found the answer...

Some packages (for instance webpack) have dependency on packages that are not supported on windows which causes NPM to print warning about it. VS interprets it as generic problem and says that packages are not installed even though in reality this warning should be ignored.

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