How do I build the Repository does not mention npm.

[dhoehna]

Visual Studio Version

N/A

Summary

How do I build this Repository neglects telling developers that npm is required.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Make sure npm is not installed
2. run build.cmd
3. The build will fail when running the command npm version...

Expected Behavior

Documentation mentions having npm installed.

Actual Behavior

build.cmd fails.

User Impact

[drewnoakes]

I'm surprised that npm is required, and I can't see how it would be called from our build scripts. Can you tell what's calling it, from the console output? I don't want to uninstall NPM to try this :)

I see references to it in our YAML files, but they're only used in CI pipelines on Azure DevOps afaik.

[dhoehna]

%USER%.nuget\packages\microsoft.visualstudio.internal.microbuild.npmpack\2.0.117\build\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Internal.MicroBuild.NpmPack.targets(66,5): error MSB3073: The command "npm version 99.0.0-dev" exited with code 9009. is the output from build.cmd

Specifically line 66

[dhoehna]

Doing some more digging the change was added ~3 years ago

[dhoehna]

I have a formed branch with the change to README.md that adds NPM as a necessary component. I can make a PR after #9643 is merged.

[adamint]

Hi @dhoehna, NPM is not required to build the repository. It however is required when publishing, as we do create NPM packages. Can you explain what you were doing?