having hard time to build with npm

[7bar]

Deployer Version

v7.5.12

Target OS

Ubuntu 24

Which PHP version are you using?

PHP 8.4

Content of deploy.php or deploy.yaml

[...]
desc('Installs npm packages');
task('npm:build', function () {
    run("cd {{release_path}} && {{bin/npm}} run build");
});
[...]
after('npm:install', 'npm:build');

Steps to reproduce

• Create a brand new vps from hetzner (ubuntu 24), configured ssh access with key (root)
• Then from the machine provision the server with dep provision
• Then did the deploy with dep deploy with no luck because it fail on npm run build above
• But this is not a surprise due that deployer user can't access the npm exec, that dep provision has installed as root.

[staging.xxxx] run command -v "npm" || which "npm" || type -p "npm"
[staging.xxxx]  error  in npm.php on line 19:
[staging.xxxx] exit code 1 (General error)
done npm:install 2s 15ms
ERROR: Task npm:install failed!
task deploy:failed

Chance that I can force the npm install under deployer user, but my guess is that this is not the best approach.
So what is the cleanest way to solve this? What am I doing wrong?
ty

[7bar]

If anyone facing the same issue, imho should be related to this one: https://github.com/Schniz/fnm/issues/938
Basically (at least on my setup) out of the box npm does not work as deployer, so after that the server is provisioned, first thing to do manually to solve is:

• as deployer user add to the file .bashrc the following instructions:

export FNM_DIR="$HOME/.local/share/fnm"
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="$HOME/.cache/xdgr"
export PATH="$FNM_DIR:$PATH"
eval "$(fnm env --use-on-cd)"

then check if env is ok with fnm env as deployer user.
Then install latest version with fnm install --lts always as deployer. Finally restart the console, and try now to deploy. Should work now (to me at least in that way solved the problem).

[mrhackcz]

Does the use-on-cd work for you? So if you have some default Node.js version globally, and you deploy to a directory with a .node-version / .nvmrc file, does the Node.js version change?