Xcode is having trouble finding node

[maharjanaman]

When I try to build react-native project on xcode, I get

env: node: No such file or directory 
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code

On shell(zsh), I don't have any trouble with node and which node print outs /var/folders/nz/hh7gg42x1tjf443r4fq3xylm0000gn/T/fnm_multishells/33995_1623643112968/bin/node.

Is there anything I'm missing during installation process?

[joeyfigaro]

Having same issue. I tried updating RN to make use of their find-node.sh script, but it looks like it's looking for NODE_BINARY, which is undefined. Is there a recommended way to keep NODE_BINARY pointing to the current version used by fnm?

[maharjanaman]

@joeyfigaro Was able to run the project by installing another node version using brew i.e. brew install node, which then acts as system node.
If there is any other better alternative, do let us know.

[Schniz]

duplicate of #486 (please reopen if I'm getting this wrong)

[douglasjunior]

For nvm we can just run ln -s $(which node) /usr/local/bin/node to create a link to node binary, but with fnm this dont work. 😢

[Schniz]

You can run ln -s "$(realpath $(which node))" /usr/local/bin/node, but I am not sure I would suggest so.

Example:

$ echo "$(realpath $(which node))"
/Users/<username>/.fnm/node-versions/v14.15.4/installation/bin/node

[douglasjunior]

Thanks @Schniz this looks good.

And about husky js, any suggestions?

I tried to add export PATH=$HOME/.fnm:$PATH to the ~/.huskyrc, but don't work.

[taylorkline]

I thought about having an .xcode.local with:

export NODE_BINARY=/System/Volumes/Data/Users/username/Library/Application Support/fnm/aliases/lts-hydrogen/bin/node

This does not work due to the space in "Application Support" (even if escaped!)

However, a symlink ln -s /System/Volumes/Data/Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/fnm/aliases/lts-hydrogen/bin/node ~/node-18 allows for:

export NODE_BINARY=/Users/username/node-18

To work just fine.

[kud]

I've also got this issue with react-native.

For instance, the .xcode.env file is:

# This `.xcode.env` file is versioned and is used to source the environment
# used when running script phases inside Xcode.
# To customize your local environment, you can create an `.xcode.env.local`
# file that is not versioned.

# NODE_BINARY variable contains the PATH to the node executable.
#
# Customize the NODE_BINARY variable here.
# For example, to use nvm with brew, add the following line
# . "$(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh" --no-use
export NODE_BINARY=$(command -v node)

and my .xcode.env.local is:

export NODE_BINARY=/var/folders/07/scm1dt7n1sz2tk39cqfhvs7w0000gq/T/yarn--1717000088176-0.6543025354301102/node

so everytime I reboot my computer, it does not work anymore.

What I usually do is to remove the .xcode.env.local first and start the react-native command, and it works. But I would like to adjust for once .xcode.env.local instead of removing it everytime.

I would like to understand the difference between $(realpath $(which node)) and $(command -v node) it does not provide the same path:

echo "$(realpath $(which node))"
/Users/mest001/Library/Application Support/fnm/node-versions/v20.11.1/installation/bin/node

echo "$(command -v node)"
/Users/mest001/Library/Caches/fnm_multishells/6417_1717061860945/bin/node

What's the best?

Thanks.

[kud]

I've tried that in my .xcode.env.local:

export NODE_BINARY=$(realpath $(which node))

Let me know if it's the best option.

[erkie]

I added this to the ios/.xcode.env file (I wanted to be able to check in the env file so it wanted it to work in an environment without fnm as well). For some reason it wasn't sourcing the proper profile scripts so had to add that manually. 🤷

# No node? Try to load via fnm
if ! command -v node &> /dev/null; then
  output=$(zsh -l -c 'source ~/.profile; source ~/.zshrc; eval "$(fnm env --shell=zsh)" && fnm env')
  eval "$output"

  # if no node is found throw an error
  if ! command -v node &> /dev/null; then
      echo "Node could not be found: $SHELL $USER $HOME"
      exit 1
  fi
fi

export NODE_BINARY="$(realpath $(which node))"