Unsupported platform for esbuild-android-arm64@0.13.9

[steveebenezer]

I have exact CI config in GitHub Actions for 2 repos, but only this one repo is throwing me an error

$ npm install
Run npm install
npm WARN read-shrinkwrap This version of npm is compatible with lockfileVersion@1, but package-lock.json was generated for lockfileVersion@2. I'll try to do my best with it!
npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for esbuild-android-arm64@0.13.9: wanted {"os":"android","arch":"arm64"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    android
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  arm64
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   linux
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/runner/.npm/_logs/2021-10-25T16_53_05_010Z-debug.lo

Currently resolves if I install with the --force flag

[evanw]

I suspect you're using an old version of npm that has a bug with optionalDependences, in which case this is a problem with npm, not with esbuild. Here's an example of an older version of npm having bugs with optionalDependencies: npm/npm#2679. From this thread it sounds like in really old versions of npm, shrinkwrap doesn't work with optionalDependences.

Does this problem reproduce on npm 7 (the latest version of npm)? Another thing you could potentially try is using npm install --no-optional, although it would probably be best to update npm instead since npm 7 has a lot of other improvements including improved performance.

[evanw]

Closing due to age and lack of a response.