In reply to @lily:lily.flowers
We need to document "common dependency quirks" like that somewhere...

In reply to @c0ba1t:matrix.org
It's a pain to figure out at the beginning why node-gyp fails to build yet another transitive dependency

In reply to @lily:lily.flowers
(hey if anyone likes writing docs and wants to join the nixpkgs nodejs team (pls i need more people to work with 😭))

In reply to @c0ba1t:matrix.org

In reply to @lily:lily.flowers
(hey if anyone likes writing docs and wants to join the nixpkgs nodejs team (pls i need more people to work with 😭))

Maybe you have some good "first issues" to point to? Would love to change from consumer to contributor eventually

  nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [pkg-config python3];
  buildInputs = with pkgs; [vips];

These two were very important.

In reply to @ThorHop:matrix.org
FYI, for your documentation? Please include whole example files. I mean small nix files, by all means. But if you provide users with examples that can be fully evaluated on the spot it helps the learning process, and more people will click the links... meaning it can surf passed other search results... and using search engines for solutions to nix problems is currently kind of painful =/

Yeah, i also feel that we do not make nix* documentation particularly discoverable or accessible, unfortunately :(

(i know for nodejs stuff it's a bandwidth problem because i've mostly been having to maintain stuff alone and haven't had sufficient motivation to write more docs than i have)

In reply to @c0ba1t:matrix.org
Are there any mid-sized, open-source projects using nixpkg's buildNpmPackage? Maybe linking to them as examples might be useful

Does buildNpm have troubles with sourcehut git sources?
I'm trying to build https://gitdab.com/cadence/out-of-your-element but I'm getting:

out-of-your-element> unpacking sources
out-of-your-element> unpacking source archive /nix/store/8xka9inmpaq7qb0g1s80r9qvnilidpb8-source
out-of-your-element> source root is source
out-of-your-element> patching sources
out-of-your-element> Executing npmConfigHook
out-of-your-element> Configuring npm
out-of-your-element> Validating consistency between /build/source/package-lock.json and /nix/store/ydflkz6y8r7a1wm0q29r6nqmgv3n2wyj-out-of-your-element-1.2-npm-deps/package-lock.json
out-of-your-element> Fixing lockfile
out-of-your-element> Making cache writable
out-of-your-element> Installing dependencies
out-of-your-element> npm verb cli /nix/store/x8vrc1c6r8nn454whr99bxc5hdy5ybjf-nodejs-18.18.0/bin/node /nix/store/x8vrc1c6r8nn454whr99bxc5hdy5ybjf-nodejs-18.18.0/bin/npm
out-of-your-element> npm info using npm@9.8.1
out-of-your-element> npm info using node@v18.18.0
out-of-your-element> npm verb title npm ci
out-of-your-element> npm verb argv "ci" "--ignore-scripts" "--loglevel" "verbose"
out-of-your-element> npm verb logfile logs-max:10 dir:/build/cache/_logs/2023-10-14T03_08_27_400Z-
out-of-your-element> npm verb logfile /build/cache/_logs/2023-10-14T03_08_27_400Z-debug-0.log
out-of-your-element> npm WARN tarball tarball data for discord-markdown@git+https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/nodejs-discord-markdown#abc56d544072a1dc5624adfea455b0e902adf7b3 (null) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
out-of-your-element> npm WARN tarball tarball data for discord-markdown@git+https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/nodejs-discord-markdown#abc56d544072a1dc5624adfea455b0e902adf7b3 (null) seems to be corrupted. Trying again.
out-of-your-element> npm http fetch GET 200 https://codeload.github.com/cloudrac3r/mixin-deep/tar.gz/2dd70d6b8644263f7ed2c1620506c9eb3f11d32a 263ms (cache stale)
out-of-your-element> npm http fetch GET 200 https://codeload.github.com/cloudrac3r/tap-out/tar.gz/1b4ec6084aedb9f44ccaa0c7185ff9bfd83da771 242ms (cache stale)
out-of-your-element> npm http fetch GET 200 https://codeload.github.com/cloudrac3r/tap-dot/tar.gz/9dd7750ececeae3a96afba91905be812b6b2cc2d 244ms (cache stale)
out-of-your-element> npm http fetch GET 200 https://codeload.github.com/cloudrac3r/giframe/tar.gz/1630f4d3b2bf5acd197409c85edd11e0da72d0a1 274ms (cache stale)
out-of-your-element> npm verb stack Error: An unknown git error occurred
out-of-your-element> npm verb stack     at makeError (/nix/store/x8vrc1c6r8nn454whr99bxc5hdy5ybjf-nodejs-18.18.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/git/lib/make-error.js:28:13)
out-of-your-element> npm verb stack     at /nix/store/x8vrc1c6r8nn454whr99bxc5hdy5ybjf-nodejs-18.18.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/git/lib/spawn.js:37:26
out-of-your-element> npm verb stack     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
out-of-your-element> npm verb cwd /build/source
out-of-your-element> npm verb Linux 6.5.5
out-of-your-element> npm verb node v18.18.0
out-of-your-element> npm verb npm  v9.8.1
out-of-your-element> npm ERR! code ENOENT
out-of-your-element> npm ERR! syscall spawn git
out-of-your-element> npm ERR! path git
out-of-your-element> npm ERR! errno -2
out-of-your-element> npm ERR! enoent An unknown git error occurred
out-of-your-element> npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
out-of-your-element> npm ERR! enoent
out-of-your-element> npm verb exit -2
out-of-your-element> npm verb unfinished npm timer reify 1697252907725
out-of-your-element> npm verb unfinished npm timer reify:unpack 1697252907754
out-of-your-element> npm verb unfinished npm timer reifyNode:node_modules/discord-markdown 1697252907764
out-of-your-element> npm verb code -2