I am trying to determine the version status of my npm installed global packages. After running the npm outdated -g --depth=0 in the terminal I receive this error:
npm ERR! Cannot read property 'length' of undefined npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /Users/dangranger/.npm/_logs/2019-03-14T21_58_37_962Z-debug.log
Contents of /Users/dangranger/.npm/_logs/2019-03-14T21_58_37_962Z-debug.log
0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/Cellar/node/11.11.0/bin/node', 1 verbose cli '/usr/local/bin/npm', 1 verbose cli 'outdated', 1 verbose cli '-g' ] 2 info using npm@6.9.0 3 info using node@v11.11.0 4 verbose npm-session 6182351d371bfeb5 5 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/http-server 597ms (from cache) 6 silly pacote registry packument for http-server@^0.11.1 fetched in 616ms 7 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/p5-manager 596ms (from cache) 8 silly pacote registry packument for p5-manager@^0.4.2 fetched in 618ms 9 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/hpm-cli 603ms (from cache) 10 silly pacote registry packument for hpm-cli@^2.0.1 fetched in 621ms 11 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/create-react-app 613ms (from cache) 12 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/local-npm 607ms (from cache) 13 silly pacote registry packument for create-react-app@^2.1.1 fetched in 628ms 14 silly pacote registry packument for local-npm@^2.2.2 fetched in 627ms 15 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-gyp 610ms (from cache) 16 silly pacote registry packument for node-gyp@^3.8.0 fetched in 631ms 17 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bower 623ms (from cache) 18 silly pacote registry packument for bower@^1.8.4 fetched in 638ms 19 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/yarn 612ms (from cache) 20 silly pacote registry packument for yarn@^1.12.3 fetched in 635ms 21 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/gatsby-cli 622ms (from cache) 22 silly pacote registry packument for gatsby-cli@^2.4.15 fetched in 641ms 23 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nodemon 620ms (from cache) 24 silly pacote registry packument for nodemon@^1.18.7 fetched in 644ms 25 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/eslint 633ms (from cache) 26 silly pacote registry packument for eslint@^5.9.0 fetched in 653ms 27 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/snyk 633ms (from cache) 28 silly pacote registry packument for snyk@^1.112.0 fetched in 662ms 29 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm 647ms (from cache) 30 silly pacote registry packument for npm@^6.9.0 fetched in 682ms 31 verbose stack TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined 31 verbose stack at dotindex (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/text-table/index.js:59:32) 31 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/text-table/index.js:11:21 31 verbose stack at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) 31 verbose stack at forEach (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/text-table/index.js:73:31) 31 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/text-table/index.js:10:9 31 verbose stack at Array.reduce (<anonymous>) 31 verbose stack at reduce (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/text-table/index.js:63:30) 31 verbose stack at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/text-table/index.js:9:20) 31 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/outdated.js:130:16 31 verbose stack at cb (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/slide/lib/async-map.js:47:24) 31 verbose stack at outdated_ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/outdated.js:221:12) 31 verbose stack at skip (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/outdated.js:343:5) 31 verbose stack at updateDeps (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/outdated.js:446:7) 31 verbose stack at tryCatcher (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23) 31 verbose stack at Promise.successAdapter [as _fulfillmentHandler0] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/nodeify.js:23:30) 31 verbose stack at Promise._settlePromise (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:566:21) 32 verbose cwd /Users/dangranger 33 verbose Darwin 18.2.0 34 verbose argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/11.11.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "outdated" "-g" 35 verbose node v11.11.0 36 verbose npm v6.9.0 37 error Cannot read property 'length' of undefined 38 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
Can anyone help resolve this issue for me?
Thanks
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Answer
If you do not want to go through the bother of uninstalling and reinstalling Node, you can manually edit the “lib/outdated.js” file located in the “npm/node_modules/npm” path with the patch from the npm Github site at npm “outdated -g” patch
The fix is as simple as adding “|| ‘global'” to one line. Works fine and will stay in place until the next npm update.