Creating project error (node-tar)

[gazedash]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

A bug.

What is the current behavior?

Please use either the version of npm that is bundled with Node.js, or a version of npm (> 5.5.1 or < 5.4.0) or node-tar (> 4.0.1) that is compatible with Node.js 9 and above.
/usr/local/bin/node[28928]: ../src/node_zlib.cc:437:static void node::{anonymous}::ZCtx::Init(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>&): Assertion `args.Length() == 7 && "init(windowBits, level, memLevel, strategy, writeResult, writeCallback," " dictionary)"' failed.
 1: node::Abort() [node]
 2: node::Assert(char const* const (*) [4]) [node]
 3: 0x12570ff [node]
 4: v8::internal::FunctionCallbackArguments::Call(void (*)(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&)) [node]
 5: 0xb7879c [node]
 6: v8::internal::Builtin_HandleApiCall(int, v8::internal::Object**, v8::internal::Isolate*) [node]
 7: 0x28fe6d1042fd
[1]    28928 abort (core dumped)  preact create material preact-materiall

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

preact create default preact-example

What is the expected behavior?

Project creates without any problem

If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behavior?

Please mention other relevant information.

• node version
  v9.2.1
• npm version
  5.6.0
• Operating system

Linux 4.4.0-104-generic #127-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 11 12:16:42 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distributor ID: neon
Description:    KDE neon User Edition 5.11
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

[VinSpee]

sounds like an issue with your node installation, are you using nvm to manage versions?

[gazedash]

@VinSpee No, I don't use nvm, and I had no issues with other libraries (even the ones that need compiled modules, like node-sass for example).

[nikivdev]

I have the same issue.

I get this when I try to run the command:

❯ preact create default web-workflows

ℹ INFO Assuming you meant preactjs-templates/default...
⠋ Creating projectWARNING: You are likely using a version of node-tar or npm that is incompatible with this version of Node.js.
Please use either the version of npm that is bundled with Node.js, or a version of npm (> 5.5.1 or < 5.4.0) or node-tar (> 4.0.1) that is compatible with Node.js 9 and above.
/usr/local/bin/node[59315]: ../src/node_zlib.cc:437:static void node::(anonymous namespace)::ZCtx::Init(const FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> &): Assertion `args.Length() == 7 && "init(windowBits, level, memLevel, strategy, writeResult, writeCallback," " dictionary)"' failed.
 1: node::Abort() [/usr/local/bin/node]
 2: node::(anonymous namespace)::DomainEnter(node::Environment*, v8::Local<v8::Object>) [/usr/local/bin/node]
 3: node::(anonymous namespace)::ZCtx::Init(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&) [/usr/local/bin/node]
 4: v8::internal::FunctionCallbackArguments::Call(void (*)(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&)) [/usr/local/bin/node]
 5: v8::internal::MaybeHandle<v8::internal::Object> v8::internal::(anonymous namespace)::HandleApiCallHelper<false>(v8::internal::Isolate*, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::HeapObject>, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::HeapObject>, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::FunctionTemplateInfo>, v8::internal::Handle<v8::internal::Object>, v8::internal::BuiltinArguments) [/usr/local/bin/node]
 6: v8::internal::Builtin_Impl_HandleApiCall(v8::internal::BuiltinArguments, v8::internal::Isolate*) [/usr/local/bin/node]
 7: 0x23ec666842fd
zsh: abort      preact create default web-workflows

[developit]

hmm - this is an issue with Node 9.x and node-tar.

[nikivdev]

@developit I believe me an OP have the latest versions of node.js. Also I looked into node-tar but you can't install it anywhere. What can we do to fix this?

Thank you.

[reznord]

@nikitavoloboev node-tar is being used by gittar package for unzipping the .git/.zip file in the node. We can see if there are any alternatives for gittar to unzip in node.