Bakery has trouble running npm install from the parent directory, in Windows

[alexweissman]

Bakery uses the --prefix flag to tell npm which directory to target for installing node dependencies.

For whatever reason, this is working in *nix but not Windows:

> npm install
npm ERR! addLocal Could not install D:\dev\userfrosting
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\
node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "--prefix" "D:\\dev\\userfrosting/
build"
npm ERR! node v6.11.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! code EISDIR
npm ERR! errno -4068
npm ERR! syscall read

npm ERR! eisdir EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
npm ERR! eisdir This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! eisdir and is related to npm not being able to find a package.json in
npm ERR! eisdir a package you are trying to install.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     D:\dev\userfrosting\npm-debug.log

npm docs don't seem to have any useful information.

For now, the workaround is to just run npm install directly in the build/ subdirectory.

[alexweissman]

Possibly relevant: npm/npm#17100

[passta]

When i use the workaround everything installs fine but after that i get the same error when i run "php bakery bake"
Does the workaround fix this issue for you? Because i am not able to open the testpage after the complete installation and setup of userfrosting

[lcharette]

Run bake, then from the build/ directory, try npm install then npm run uf-assets-install. After that, you don't need to run bake again.

[alexweissman]

Ok, this should be fixed with the 4.1.1-alpha release.