Windows Issues

While Node is cross-platform, that doesn't mean there are not quirks across systems.

such as...

node-gyp errors

npm ERR! Failed at the contextify@0.1.14 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.

Please first check your version of node and look into whether or not you can upgrade.

node -v

• I've confirmed v0.14.0 and lower of patternlab node to work with Node 0.12.X and lower.
• I've confirmed v0.15.0 and above of patternlab node to work with Node 4.X and 5.X

Check out this great Windows troublshooting, you are not alone.

Failure to Find Git During npm install from Windows Server

Windows Server / TeamCity and perhaps other build systems depending on your network infrastructure, might have trouble directly connecting via git:// protocol to github for non-npm'd dependencies like Gulp 4.

Follow these instructions to force git to use https:// instead: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33571039/teamcity-fails-to-run-npm-install-on-windowsserver/35627944

for example, changing your package.json dependency for Gulp 4 from (the shorthand github version which usually works):

"gulp": "gulpjs/gulp#4.0",

to

gulp: git+https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp.git#4.0