Remove Postinstall Script

[sashadev-sky]

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The problem

We are moving away from using Bower to manage our application dependencies, as it has been deprecated. We would like to remove a postinstall script in our package.json file that is still creating symlinks to bower components.

Solution

This one is simple - lets remove the following lines:

plots2/package.json

Lines 6 to 8 in 205653b

	"scripts": {
	"postinstall": "node -e \"try { require('fs').symlinkSync(require('path').resolve('node_modules/@bower_components'), 'public/lib', 'junction') } catch (e) { }\""
	},

What to change them to:

Nothing. We may eventually add a new postinstall script but for now we are just removing it altogether.

Thanks!!

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[grvsachdeva]

hey @emestabillo, you can start working on this one. Thanks!

[emestabillo]

Hi @gauravano ,
Following are screenshots from my dev setup as requested:

yarn install

passenger start gives me 502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.15.8

The regular rails s command seems to load the app. Can I just use this?

[sashadev-sky]

@emestabillo I am not sure about resolving that specific error and maybe @gauravano can advice on that but you can definitely just use rails s 👍

[grvsachdeva]

Hi @emestabillo, I tried passenger start on my system and it worked fine. I think it has something to do with your passenger setup but not quite sure as I am not a regular user of passenger myself (I use WEBrick most of the time).

I found some links - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51889368/rails-nginx-passenger-error-phusion-passenger-doesnt-seem-to-be-running?rq=1

phusion/passenger#1469

You can try them and maybe @jywarren can help here.

Thank you for the response @CleverFool77 ! I did try it with ‘rails s’, it loaded without the assets. I’ve just been assigned my first task and i dont think it will be a conflict for now (it

you said assets weren't loaded when you ran server with rails s but as per the above screenshot, the whole setup seems fine. The view seems different because at publiclab.org, the carousel, footer, etc are features i.e., their code is stored in the production database and that's why you are not able to see that in your local app.

Thanks!

[emestabillo]

Awesome! Thank you for the feedback @gauravano @sashadev-sky !!