How to fix the npm install node-pre-gyp ERR error

Question

When I run yarn install I get the following error, I've deleted the node_modules and yarn.lock files and tried again but no luck, seems to be something with gRPC looking at the error message.

Not sure what to do... Any suggestions?

> grpc@1.10.1 install /Users/mynamegoeshere/Desktop/Projects2/mydemoapp2/mydemoapp/node_modules/@firebase/firestore/node_modules/grpc
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(403): https://storage.googleapis.com/grpc-precompiled-binaries/node/grpc/v1.10.1/node-v64-darwin-x64-unknown.tar.gz 
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for grpc@1.10.1 and node@10.16.3 (node-v64 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not installable for grpc@1.10.1 and node@10.16.3 (node-v64 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
node-pre-gyp ERR! Hit error Connection closed while downloading tarball file 
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/grpc/deps/grpc/src/core/lib/surface/init.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/grpc/deps/grpc/src/core/lib/surface/init.o
rm: ./Release/.deps/Release/obj.target/grpc/deps/grpc/src/core/lib/surface/init.o.d.raw: No such file or directory
make: *** [Release/obj.target/grpc/deps/grpc/src/core/lib/surface/init.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
npm ERR! Failed at the grpc@1.10.1 install script.

Answer 1

That version of the grpc library is old and is not compatible with that version of Node. You should either use a newer version of grpc or an older version of Node. The newest version of grpc is currently 1.24.2.

Answer 2

I had the same error, a bit different versions. Ubuntu 20.04. A project required Node 10.x, it would not yarn install . yarn.lock had 2 versions of grpc as dependencies, one grpc v1.14.1 of pkgcloud . But it was errorring on grpc v1.9.1, a dependency of google-gax . This let me install and build:

• open yarn.lock
• delete a line of the grpc dependency with version on which it errors, save. For example

...
google-gax@^0.15.0:
  version "0.15.0"
  ...
  grpc "~1.9.1" <--- deleted this
  ...

• run yarn install --ignore-engines (I had to use --ignore-engines )

This updated some dependencies in yarn.lock and removed the section with grpc@~1.9.1 and project installed and built.