fsevents optional dependency returns not compatible with system

Question

Iam installing babel core 6.26.0 per this documentation, everything goes smoothly except for the following error:

npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /babel-cli/chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: [email protected]
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: [email protected]

I'm wondering if this is just noise? Or if there is a workaround someone might know of? I've seen some documentation around it but nothing concrete.

Answer 1

Yes, this is expected. fsevents is only supported on OSX, so on any other system you'll see a message that it has been skipped.