When run as a GitHub action on Ubuntu-latest, it fails to install/locate Prettier

[dicknetherlands]

My package.json contains prettier in devDependencies, version 2.8.4. It runs on ubuntu-latest. At some point in the last week the action started failing with the message below. I tested it by forcing a rerun of the action on a PR that previously worked fine and it failed there too despite there being no subsequent commits.

❌ Unable to locate or install prettier. Did you provide a workdir which contains a valid package.json?

I then tested it further by putting a 'run' step in before the call to uses: reviewdog-action-prettier@v1 in order to force an install of prettier. That installed OK, but the action was still unable to locate it.

It seems that something perhaps in Github or on ubuntu-latest with the "if [-f...]" test has changed that stops this action from functioning correctly?

[dicknetherlands]

Here's the relevant section from my github workflow:

  Prettier:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: EPMatt/reviewdog-action-prettier@v1
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
          reporter: github-pr-check
          level: warning

And here is a sample package.json that triggers the issue:

{
  "name": "myproject",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "myproject",
  "private": true,
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "<censored>"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^18.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.2.0",
    "react-router-dom": "^6.4.2",
    "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
    "typescript": "^4.7.4"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject",
    "pretty": "npx prettier src/** --write",
    "prettyver": "npx prettier --version"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "prettier": "2.8.4",
    "tailwindcss": "^3.2.4"
  }
}

[kazkansouh]

This script is broken on npm version >= 9. It makes use of the npm bin script which has been removed.

• feat: remove npm bin npm/cli#5459
• https://github.com/npm/cli/blob/latest/CHANGELOG.md

Probably makes sense to update use of $(npm bin)/prettier to node_modules/.bin/prettier unless there is a need to really have dynamic resolution.

[EPMatt]

Hey there,

thank you so much for reporting here. I've just merged #36 (thanks @kazkansouh!) which includes a fix for this issue.
If the problem persists, please don't hesitate to open a new ticket.

Thanks!