Error installing bcrypt with npm

Question

I\'m unable to install bcrypt using npm on my machine because I encounter the following errors. I have been troubleshooting the issue without much luck. Can you

Answer 1

On this command:

npm install --g --production windows-build-tools

You may have to run this in Powershell as administrator on your Windows machine.

You do that by right-clicking on Powershell and select "Run As Administrator"

Answer 2

Reason for Error : Node maybe can’t able to find the Python path on your system

Solution

step: 1 Rum command prompt as administrator step 2 Install the package

  npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

It may take some while, keep patient

step 3 Now install

npm install node-gyp

Last step Now you are ready to Go

npm install bcrypt

Answer 3

Upgrade to bcrypt@5.0.0

npm i bcrypt@5.0.0

I am not getting errors on this newer version of bcrypt, older version gave different types of errors ranging from not able to install bcrypt to typescript type errors

Answer 4

I just ran the following then tried the install and it worked:

npm install node-pre-gyp -g

Answer 5

The easy solution is just switch from the "bcrypt" npm module to bycryptjs or bcrypt-nodejs. It's the exact same API, but pure JS so no native add-ons to deal with.

npm install --save bcryptjs && npm uninstall --save bcrypt

Then change your require calls to "bcryptjs", but all your code otherwise can be unchanged.

Long term, I suspect at the moment bcrypt may not be ready for node v0.12.0 yet, but if not it will eventually be updated and ready.