Anyone managed to get the new Now-CLI components working?

[Mark Edwards3]

As per the title.  Has anyone managed to get the Now-CLI to install and run successfully?

I've sort of managed to get it working under a Windows machine if, and only if the user account contains no spaces.

However, if I try to install under a *nix box or on my Mac, installation fails if I try to install it globally (even if su'ed in as root) complaining that it cannot locate or install the keytar dependency.

If I attempt to install the package just for the local user, then the installation appears to proceed fine, but on running now-cli --version, I get the following error appear in the console:

Error: Cannot find module 'keytar'
Require stack:
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/credential-manager/keytar-synthesizer.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/credential-manager/index.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/index.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/index.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/index.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/common/connection-utils.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/api/index.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/runner/plugin-factory.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/runner/index.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/index.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:982:15)
    at Function.resolve (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:83:19)
    at rebuildKeytarBindings (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/credential-manager/keytar-synthesizer.js:23:391)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/credential-manager/keytar-synthesizer.js:23:610)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/credential-manager/index.js:23:202)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1158:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1178:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1002:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:901:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1044:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/credential-manager/keytar-synthesizer.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/credential-manager/index.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/auth/index.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/connection/index.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/node_modules/@servicenow/cli-glide/index.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/common/connection-utils.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/api/index.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/runner/plugin-factory.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/runner/index.js',
    '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@servicenow/cli/src/index.js'
  ]
}

I've now spent the better part of a day trying to resolve this, and cannot find any way around it, so thought I'd throw it open to the community.

For reference, I'm installing under Node v12.16.1 / npm 6.13.4. on OSX 10.15.3. (but also tried fresh installs of CentOS 7 and Debian 9.

[Chuck Tomasi]

I'm running it fine on my Mac installed in my home directory. Be sure to remove traces of @servicenow from /usr/local/(whatever)

Mac OS 10.14.6

$ node -v

v11.14.0

$ npm --version

6.7.0

$ now-cli --version

Now CLI @17.0.0

$ which node

/usr/local/bin/node

$ which npm

/usr/local/bin/npm

$ which now-cli

/Users/chuck.tomasi/.npm-global/bin/now-cli

[Rahman4]

Hello,

I managed to create the sample "Hello World" app and when tried to Deploy to SNOW I got some error where it says check the log file however log file is totally blank. But I realised that my instance is updated and I can see my new scopped app.

How can I view this Hello World app inside the Snow?

Thanks

[Mark Edwards3 · Accepted solution]

Hmm ... finally managed to get it to install.

However, in order to do so I had to set my umask to 0000 and run the installation as root (rather than via a sudo command), otherwise both the fsevents and keytar modules failed to install (and hence broke the now-cli command)

Of course, in order to now set everything back to a 'safe' configuration, I now have to go back and remove the write access to all the folders and reset my umask back to the previous values.

[Chuck Tomasi]

Thanks for sharing. Good to know. Hopefully the install can be improved to not have to fiddle with the umask in the future.