Npm error unsupported platform for fsEvents when deploying to Azure

Question

When I run npm install, I get this error:

npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"}) npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    darwin npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  any npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   win32 npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64 

This has been asked here but the accepted answer that it is optional does not work for me as I am unable to publish to azure since npm install fails.

npm version : 5.6.0

I have tried:

npm install --no-optional 

Answer 1

npm i -f doesn't sound like a good idea...

Instead, add fsevents to optional dependencies (if fsevents is in your package.json):

"optionalDependencies": {     "fsevents": "^2.0.7" } 

Answer 2

@Aaron is correct. This was failing when I was running npm install from within maven-frontend-plugin.

I resolved the issue using the command npm i -f ( npm install forced)