npm install error - MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe"

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Try this from cmd line as Administrator

optional part, if you need to use a proxy:

set HTTP_PROXY=http://login:password@your-proxy-host:your-proxy-port
set HTTPS_PROXY=http://login:password@your-proxy-host:your-proxy-port

run this:

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

No need for Visual Studio. This has what you need.

References:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/windows-build-tools
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows-build-tools

I know it's a very old question, but is the first in my google search and after some time I got how to solve this.

find node on your windows with:
as @janaka-bandara suggested you can use the native
where node
if you don't have it for some reason you can install which with node
$ npm install -g which
$ which node
after cd into the directory, inside the directory cd into node_modules\npm folder and finally:
$ npm install node-gyp@latest
here worked, the answer is from this site

It's mentioned in the Documentation clearly as below: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation

Option 1: Install all the required tools and configurations using Microsoft's windows-build-tools using npm install --global --production windows-build-tools from an elevated PowerShell or CMD.exe (run as Administrator).

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

Look at the installation instructions for node-gyp - you can't just npm install node-gyp. I see you've installed Visual C++, but there's more to it.

What version of windows do you have? If I knew that I might be able to tell you which part of the node-gyp instructions you didn't do, but check them out and you should be able to figure it out. I've gone through a bit of pain for this stuff too.

I tried the above suggested npm install --global --production windows-build-tools but found that the installation was always hanging forever.

I managed to fix the problem by installing Node.js 8 instead of Node.js 10.

Just to add to the above answer, anyone finding an issue of the installers taking forever, I found my issue was python, I uninstalled both my versions 3 and versions 2.

The re-ran the command in PowerShell terminal as the admin and it installed almost straight away.

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

PLEASE FOLLOW THE FLOW CORRECTLY WINDOWS 10x64

1. Powershell run as administrator
2. npm install -g node-gyp
3. npm install --global --production windows-build-tools