Yuglify compressor can't find binary from package installed through npm

Question

I have a fresh virtualenv environment and have got the latest django-pipleline.

The JS compression with Closure works perfect, but CSS compression with Yuglify fails, due a node error:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'pipeline.storage.PipelineCachedStorage'
PIPELINE_JS_COMPRESSOR = 'pipeline.compressors.closure.ClosureCompressor'
PIPELINE_CSS_COMPRESSOR = 'pipeline.compressors.yuglify.YuglifyCompressor'

When I try to collect the static:

./manage.py collectstatic

It says:

pipeline.compressors.CompressorError: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

But I have clearly installed yuglify even as global:

sudo npm -g install yuglify

/usr/local/bin/yuglify -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yuglify/bin/yuglify
[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yuglify 
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

Trying to set the biney in settings doesn't help either:

PIPELINE_YUGLIFY_BINARY = '/usr/local/bin/yuglify'

I still get the same error. Why now such problems with npm? Is there something I have to setup additionally?

Alternatively is there a way to install yuglify with pip?

Many Thanks,

Shah

Can you try to run this : heroku run /usr/bin/env node – Dealate

Thanks for your response. I finally found it. It is an issue with npm and how it installs the yuglify package. It is not pretty. You better mention that in the documentation. ;) See my answer. – Shah

When I run heroku run /usr/bin/env node, it starts node terminal. How do I fix it? How do I run Hooman's solution on heroku? – Shinberg

Answer 1

After 3 hours of suffering, I have found the solution.

This is happening because of a misnaming error, if you install from a package manager (npm) your bin may be called nodejs so you just need to symlink it like this:

ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Now it is working. This didn't happen with the older version, its is something new. But at least it is working again. I hope this helps someone else out there. :)

Shah

Additionally for me, which node pointed at /usr/sbin/node, not /usr/bin/node from the above soft link. Removing the sbin version of node brought the yuglify compressor back online. – Neath

Also note that you must install yugliy with the -g as you specified above - sudo npm -g install yuglify. Without this the binary will not be linked to /bin. – Lobachevsky

Answer 2

In my case both uglify-js and cssmin were somehow not installed.

So I have re-installed them again by using following command and then it starts working again.

sudo npm install -g cssmin uglify-js

Enteron