Third party 'espruino-cli' tool is dead...

Sad to say, but look like Command line tool is dead for me, I've spent 5 h or so trying to fix it..

I've been using command line. I prefer my own editor and I'm not a fan of copying large chunks of code from my editor into web IDE...

Updated npm packages and tried to connect like always, but got this:
https://gist.github.com/ancienthero/1e6d­2e66350f20a393d73c0caa3ffda4

Seemed like espruino-cli I decided to update espruino-cli but I got this:
https://gist.github.com/ancienthero/16f8­01d83d871b1e0b8997d0b386146a

Please help!

I've opened issues https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoTool­s/issues/66 , https://github.com/gzip/esp-cli/issues/2­

Looks like the serialport module won't install for you. You must have changed something - any idea what? Did you install a new node version?

Can you try 'npm install serialport' and see if it completes without errors? If not perhaps you could contact the node serialport project and ask for help?

Ok, I got confused - this is about gzip's espruino-cli after all. I have similar problems when installing it and I think it's to do with espruino-cli using an out of date serialport module (1.2.5) when we're up to at least version 4.0 now.

Try sudo npm install -g espruino and use the espruino tool and not espruino-cli. That's the one I actually maintain, and contains a whole bunch of extra features. It's basically got all the Web IDE's backend packaged into a CLI.

yes, updated node and npm...

Inspired by your suggestion I decided to reinstall espruino and espruino-cli, I believe there is something wrong with espruino-cli itself.

Anyways, a clean install of espruino npm package and fixing XCode has solved it.
As I noticed espruino package goes with espruino-cli and installing espruino-cli by itself creates havoc. Not mentioning that node-gyp has its own problems with Xcode

Thank you for help!

@ancienthero any tips to fix the node-gpy Xcode problems ?

@tbd Yes, after hours of trial and error, this finally worked for me:

Install Xcode
Run sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Develop­er

unfortunately it requires to install Xcode (5GB or so).

here is full thread: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issue­s/569

It seems that Node.js has been pushing ahead with NAPI modules (that don't need a recompile for each version of Node.js) - so hopefully at some point in the next year we won't have this nightmare to worry about :(