Node on Daniel Pomfret

NPM: Maximum call stack size exceeded

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

You may have cloned a project and tried running ’npm install’ only to find the following error message:

error Maximum call stack size exceeded

There’s multiple ways I’ve found to fix this:

The Safe ways:

Force clear the NPM cache:

npm cache clean --force
npm install

Rebuild:

npm rebuild
npm install

Remove node_modules:

rm -r node_modules
npm install

The Nuclear way:

rm package-lock.json
rm -r node_modules
npm install

As always, I hope this fixes your problem!

Penny Saving Challenge using Starling Bank, Lambda and Node

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I came across a money-saving Challenge called the ‘1p Challenge’. Basically you save an amount of money based on the day number in the year.

For example, on January the 1st, you would save 1p. Towards the end of the year, say day 365, you would save £3.65

As you can imagine, this starts saving small but eventually ramps up so you will save around £667 over the year.

The problem is, it’s incredibly hard to manage yourself. Finding the time or remembering to transfer funds into another account every day is a challenge. So, like most things in my life, I decided to automate it.

npm install : Killed (Ubuntu 16.04)

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

While installing packages via npm, it failed with just the message “Killed”. Automatically this triggers me to believe it is memory related. I was after all running the VM with only 1G memory.

Fix npm install Killed

So to resolve this, you need to create and extend a swap file.

You can do this in Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 with the following commands:

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile sudo chmod 600 /swapfile sudo mkswap /swapfile sudo swapon /swapfile sudo swapon –show sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak echo ‘/swapfile none swap sw 0 0’ | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10 echo ‘vm.swappiness=10’ | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 echo ‘vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50’ | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf