There are no Installations for NodeJS in Jenkins

Question

Can't figure this out for quite a piece of time. Can't find answer on the web either.

My CI tool is Jenkins. Source of code is Git. A build trigger is another build stability. Plugin manager says that NodeJS is installed.

Now this above is building until I pick this build environment:

Provide Node & npm bin/ folder to PATH

(to use npm command) which shows me a dropdown list with Installations which has no Installations at all to choose from.

I can save this job and run it. In the output console I get:

ERROR: Build step failed with exception
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: NodeJS Installation not found :

In global tool configuration there are no NodeJS installations. I guess this is the problem. Now, how can I know what Installation directory should I put there?

Answer 1

Did you install and follow the instruction of the node.js plugin? It is quite straight forward:

1. After installing the plugin, go to the global jenkins configuration panel (JENKINS_HOME/configure or JENKINS_HOME/configureTools if using jenkins 2), and add new NodeJS installations For every Nodejs installation, you can choose to install some global npm packages.
2. Now, go to a job configuration screen, you will have 2 new items : On the "Build environnment" section, you will be able to pick one of the NodeJS installations to provide its bin/ folder to the PATH. This way, during shell build scripts, you will have some npm executables available to the command line (like bower or grunt)