preinstall not always running on cf push about nodejs-buildpack HOT 6 CLOSED

Closing as this is an issue with npm v3.x.

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@plindberg we recreated the issue and found that with node v5.11.1 if your environment doesn't have access to the git repo, the preinstall command won't run. This is not the case with v4.4.5 which is a more stable version.

Can you vendor your dependencies? that way you won't have to push your GitHub deploy keys.

We'll look into why newer versions of node don't run preinstall commands as expected.

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@plindberg so after further research we have discovered that this is an open bug with npm v3x. Node version 5&6 use npm v3x which is why you are encountering this issue.

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Just wondering, did you find a workaround for this? The only way we've gotten around this is by specifying an older version of NPM. You could do npm run preinstall and then npm install but not sure how you'd pull that off in Cloud Foundry.

"engines": {
"node": "^6.x",
"npm" : "2.15.5"
},

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