[Bug]: CLI generate store throws when Yarn is not installed (Windows)

[DavidDeSloovere]

Describe the Bug

CLI throws error when, probably because Yarn is not installed
npx @vue-storefront/cli generate store

Current behavior

CLI throws ugly error

Expected behavior

CLI should return a user friendly message that Yarn is required needs to be installed.

Steps to reproduce

don't not have yarn installed

npx @vue-storefront/cli generate store

enter name for project
select magento 2
install magento? no

What version of Vue Storefront are you using?

latest cli

What version of Node.js are you using?

16.20.0

What browser (and version) are you using?

What operating system (and version) are you using?

Windows

Relevant log output

◇  🤓 Do you want to install Magento 2 locally on your computer? (BETA)
│  No
│
◇  🙌 Node.js version is compatible
node:events:491
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn yarn ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:485:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:291:12)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:485:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21) {
  errno: -4058,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn yarn',
  path: 'yarn',
  spawnargs: [ '-v' ]
}

Able to fix / change the documentation?

• Yes
• No

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[DavidDeSloovere]

Also, prerequisites only mention node and not yarn:
https://docs.vuestorefront.io/v2/getting-started/installation.html

Sure, scroll down and you'll see yarn, but you get the point 😉

[skirianov]

Thanks for reporting this! I will take a look and release a fix for that. I think the issue is that we are checking for yarn even if user doesn't want to select Magento to install locally.

Also, as @DavidDeSloovere mentioned, this is a flaw in docs and we will add Yarn and part of prereq 👍

[tqlong1609]

I also have this issue, but I have installed yarn and my node version is: 16.13.1

[skirianov]

hey @tqlong1609 can you please run this command yarn -v in your terminal?

Most probably this is an issue how we check Yarn version, I'll release a patch asap

[DavidDeSloovere]

Must say that the error peristed after installing yarn.
I'm using nvm for Windows, not usre if that matters.

My yarn -v output is

1.22.19

[skirianov]

@DavidDeSloovere thank you! This is 100% something wrong with Windows yarn version check, I'll release an RC CLI version right now, would you be able to check in 10 mins?

[DavidDeSloovere]

Yes, I have some time today to check.

[skirianov]

Hopefully it is fixed, can you please try it out: npx @vue-storefront/cli@rc init

[DavidDeSloovere]

I think there is something wrong.
Only have commercetools as an option, and after selecting that the CLI exits.

[skirianov]

hmmm...I'm trying to figure out what's happening. Npm package is published, but for some reason it is not updated in the registry. Maybe some propagation issues.

[skirianov]

https://status.npmjs.org/ - there was an issue with npm publish service indeed.

Can you please try npx @vue-storefront/cli@4.1.3 init once again? Patch 4.1.3 is released

[DavidDeSloovere]

The yarn error is gone!

But 2 new issues instead :-)

Without installing Magento locally. The .env.example file is actually there. But the command says "rmdir" to remove a directory.

With installation of Magento locally. Sudo on Windows?

[skirianov]

@DavidDeSloovere Windows 💀

Are you running this with WSL installed? Unfortunately CLI does not support installation of Magento locally using Windows without WSL (there are so many issues with that =()

I'll make sure to add this error handler in the next patch.

npm registry right now has issues with the npm publish service so publishing takes a lot of time.

Can you please try running the command wihtout Magento 2 local install once again, will it result in the same error? I'll publish a patch meanwhile

[skirianov]

@DavidDeSloovere patch is up, can you please try npx@vue-storefront/cli@4.1.3-rc.2 init