Error when installing microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk

[Stefan Lachmann]

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- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Minimal steps to reproduce

git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/js-e2e-express-server
cd js-e2e-express-server
npm install
Here comes the bug:

npm install microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk

Any log messages given by the failure

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /Users/stefan/projects/Talk2Me/node_modules/microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c npm install --package-lock-only --ignore-scripts --no-audit && npx npm-force-resolutions
npm ERR! up to date in 4s
npm ERR! Error: Cannot find module '/Users/stefan/.config/.npm/_npx/73b02210abc194ff/node_modules/.bin/out/goog/bootstrap/nodejs.js'
npm ERR! Require stack:
npm ERR! - /Users/stefan/.config/.npm/_npx/73b02210abc194ff/node_modules/.bin/npm-force-resolutions
npm ERR! at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:985:15)
npm ERR! at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:833:27)
npm ERR! at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1057:19)
npm ERR! at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:103:18)
npm ERR! at Object. (/Users/stefan/.config/.npm/_npx/73b02210abc194ff/node_modules/.bin/npm-force-resolutions:19:1)
npm ERR! at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1155:14)
npm ERR! at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1209:10)
npm ERR! at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1033:32)
npm ERR! at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:868:12)
npm ERR! at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)

Expected/desired behavior

npm install should be succesful since i found this in a tutorial about Cognitive Services Speech

OS and Version?

OS: macOS 13.0 22A380 x86_64
Host: MacBookPro16,1

Versions

ᐅ node --version
v16.18.0
ᐅ npm --version
9.1.2

Mention any other details that might be useful

found a workaround:
first add these to "scripts" section

preinstall
setup

then add the microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk package directly among depencies

# package.json
  "scripts": {
    "preinstall": "npm install -g npm-force-resolutions@0.0.3",
      ....
    "setup": "npm install --package-lock-only --ignore-scripts --no-audit"
  },

  "dependencies": {
     ....
    "microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk": "^1.24.0"
  },
}

then run:
rm -rf node_modules && npm cache verify && npm install
this will most likely fail

however if you then run
yarn install
the installation will be succesful

then the app works locally assuming the Create Cognitive Services Speech resource have been created :)

because the section:
Deploy local Express.js app to remote App service in Visual Studio Code
fails during deployment

Have a nice day

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