[Known Issue] `npm i -g nativescript` error: gyp: binding.gyp not found about nativescript

[rigor789]

This is an issue introduced in NPM 10.4.0 - I have reported it here: npm/cli#7355

As a workaround:

npm i -g npm@~10.3
npm i -g nativescript

[NathanWalker]

Another issue you may see similar to this can look like this:

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /Users/me/Documents/project/node_modules/better-sqlite3
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild --release
npm ERR! prebuild-install warn install No prebuilt binaries found (target=20.11.0 runtime=node arch=arm64 libc= platform=darwin)
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected]
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] | darwin | arm64
npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.12.3 found at "/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.12"
npm ERR! gyp info spawn /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.12

... more omitted for brevity ...

npm ERR! Traceback (most recent call last):
npm ERR!   File "/Users/me/Documents/project/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 42, in <module>
npm ERR!     import gyp  # noqa: E402
npm ERR!     ^^^^^^^^^^
npm ERR!   File "/Users/me/Documents/project/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
npm ERR!     import gyp.input
npm ERR!   File "/Users/me/Documents/project/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py", line 19, in <module>
npm ERR!     from distutils.version import StrictVersion
npm ERR! ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

You can set this in your ~/.zshrc to resolve:

export npm_config_python=/opt/homebrew/bin/python3.11

Just be sure to open new terminal tab, or source ~/.zshrc after adding.