decktape: Install error with Node 13

Have already ran npm rebuild and npm install as suggested but no help.

$ npm install -g decktape
/usr/local/bin/decktape -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/decktape/decktape.js
+ decktape@2.10.0
updated 67 packages in 1.768s

$ decktape --chrome-arg=--allow-file-access-from-files --chrome-arg=--disable-web-security remark kubernetes_xtradbcluster.html ~/Desktop/kubernetes_xtradbcluster_20191214.pdf
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1190
  return process.dlopen(module, path.toNamespacedPath(filename));
                 ^

Error: The module '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/decktape/node_modules/hummus/binding/hummus.node'
was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 59. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 79. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module (for instance, using `npm rebuild` or `npm install`).
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1190:18)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:976:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:884:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1016:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:69:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/decktape/node_modules/hummus/hummus.js:5:31)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1121:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1160:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:976:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:884:14)

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments: 21 (13 by maintainers)

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Version 3.0.0 has just been released that contains cc7f2fbc342c667ab916e12c3c4cdc9fe1a43499. Let me close this.

astefanutti on May 15, 2020

I’ve started experimenting with pdf-lib. I’m still working on reaching the same level of functionality, but it seems a very promising candidate. I’ll keep you posted ASAP.

astefanutti on May 13, 2020

@firasm Thanks. I also recommend NVM. I get your pain. This is the most important outstanding issue, so I’ll try to work on it ASAP.

astefanutti on May 8, 2020

Just to provide some instructions for anyone that comes here trying to install decktape on macOS (I’m on 10.15.4) and facing install problems, here’s what I did:

uninstall the latest version of node (I used brew, so, brew uninstall node)
install nvm (instructions here)
install a very specific version of node (12.14.1) using nvm install 12.14.1 (note the version of node@12 on brew is 12.16, and it does not work)
Then install decktape

What a pain! I hope the HummusJS dependency gets removed soon, thanks for working on it and this package!

firasm on May 8, 2020

This should be fixed with cc7f2fbc342c667ab916e12c3c4cdc9fe1a43499. No more native module 🥳!

I’ve done some testing and it works on all the examples. I’ll cut a new release ASAP.

astefanutti on May 15, 2020

Wow, thank you @firasm that worked

jonathanlilly on May 13, 2020

I’ve been researching a bit and I’ve found potential candidates to replace HummusJS:

I’ve also stumbled upon this interesting article about compiling pdfcpu to Web Assembly: https://dev.to/wcchoi/browser-side-pdf-processing-with-go-and-webassembly-13hn.

I need to find some time to experiment with these.

astefanutti on Mar 30, 2020

@astefanutti

We are still thinking about the best approach to solve this. I’d like to explore the idea of compiling HummusJS to WebAssembly so that we avoid having a dependency on a native module that’s a pain for users to install Decktape.

Did you or someone else have time to look into this? It would be awesome if this could be implemented platform independently with web assembly!

nicojs on Feb 26, 2020

I’ve been experiencing the exact same issue @utdrmac is having, and the only working solution I’ve found is to do what he did, i.e., downgrading to node version 12.x. Really curious, though, to see if there is a fix (or, at least, a “hacky” workaround) to make this work with the latest node version 13.x.

Thanks everyone (and Happy New Year)!

gtolomei on Jan 7, 2020

I tried this.

$ npm install node-pre-gyp
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/drmac/package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/drmac/package.json'
npm WARN drmac No description
npm WARN drmac No repository field.
npm WARN drmac No README data
npm WARN drmac No license field.

+ node-pre-gyp@0.14.0

Same error as above. I resolved the situation by downgrading node to 12.14 and then npm install -g decktape and it seems to be working again.

utdrmac on Dec 20, 2019