React app pipeline build failure at npm ci step

[Thomas Chestnut]

Hi, I work on a React app using node 14.18.3. Today when I opened a PR I'm getting a bitbucket pipeline build failure for a pipeline that's worked fine for almost 2 years.

After the npm ci step i get this error: 

npm ci /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/es6/validate-engines.js:31 throw err

Full error is below.

From what I've found online, it sounds like it could either be an issue with npm, or maybe the fact that the app is using an outdated node version but i've made PRs last week and builds succeeded just fine. Maybe there is some dependency that was updated and now incompatible. It also seems that validate-engines is using fs-minipass package so not sure if there's some issue with that.

If anyone else has run into this or a similar error, I appreciate any help! 

+ npm ci

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/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/es6/validate-engines.js:31

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throw err

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^

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TypeError: Class extends value undefined is not a constructor or null

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at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fs-minipass/lib/index.js:136:4)

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at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)

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at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)

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at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)

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at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)

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at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19)

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at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:93:18)

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at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/cacache/lib/content/read.js:4:13)

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at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)

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at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)

[Thomas Chestnut]

I resolved this by upgrading the app to use node v18 and now the build is successful. i'm assuming there was some dependency that was updated and not compatible with node v14.