vue init stuck at project description when running vue init webpack <name>

[mboekhold]

Version

3.8.4

Environment info

System:
    OS: Linux 4.15 Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.4.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/bin/node
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 6.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: Not Found
    Firefox: 67.0.3
  npmGlobalPackages:
    @vue/cli: 3.8.4

Steps to reproduce

run vue init webpack

What is expected?

Vue scaffold is created

What is actually happening?

Vue hangs on project description

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I am aware that this was an issue with node v8, but I am getting this issue with the latest node version

Stuck here:
? Project name
? Project description (A Vue.js project)

[haoqunjiang]

SBoudrias/Inquirer.js#811
Upstream bug in inquirer.

[mboekhold]

I'd like to add that I discovered that the webpack is deprecated introducing vue cli-3, not sure if this causes the problem though.

[slhck]

Same issue here.

Could someone propose a PR that locks inquirer at a lower version until this is resolved?
Apparently the same was done here to temporarily fix it: umijs/create-umi#70

Proposed a PR to fix it (hopefully, cannot test).

[asdico]

Same issue.

I'm working in Mac OSX. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[eryueweiyu]

Same issue.
working in win10.

[slhck]

Please don't post "same issue" comments, as the actual upstream issue has been identified already. Just click the +1 button if you want to express support.

[aa1143]

Same issue.

I'm working in Mac OSX. 🤷🏻‍♂️

the same question!

[Livan-pro]

For those, who is looking for temporary fix of vue init command.
PowerShell (Windows):

cd "$(Split-Path $(whereis vue)[0] -Parent)\node_modules\@vue\cli-init"
npm i inquirer@~6.3.1

bash:

cd "$(dirname $(which vue))/node_modules/@vue/cli-init"
npm i inquirer@~6.3.1

[AdenSTL]

LInux user :Ubuntu 18.04LTS
@xlivan
I ran command:

cd "$(vuetest $(2.9.6))/node_modules/@vue/cli-init"

vuestest is the name of my directory and vue version is 2.9.6 ,node version 8.0.0.

Output is:

2.9.6: command not found
vuetest: command not found
bash: cd: /node_modules/@vue/cli-init: No such file or directory

Even if i just ran:

cd "$(dirname $(which vue))/node_modules/@vue/cli-init"

Output is:

bash: cd: /home/adenstl/.yarn/bin/node_modules/@vue/cli-init: No such file or directory

Before this I have ran

sudo npm install
sudo npm install -g @vue/cli

Link to my package.json
https://github.com/AdenSTL/stackoverflow-errors/blob/master/package.json

Please help.
Thanks.

[haoqunjiang]

Fixed in [email protected]
Now please try to clean your npm/yarn cache and reinstall @vue/cli @vue/cli-init

[Livan-pro]

@AdenSTL, sorry, didn't saw your question earlier. But problem already fixed, so just do npm i -g @vue/cli @vue/cli-init.
Regarding question, you should run commands exactly as I provided in previous message. And, I think, you are getting error

No such file or directory

because you're using yarn and it has different path for global node_modules.

[nlesyuk]

Hi @xlivan I put in PowerShell this command
cd "$(Split-Path $(whereis vue)[0] -Parent)\node_modules\@vue\cli-init"
and receive error http://prntscr.com/o4ywht .

Short text about error:

whereis : The term 'whereis' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, ...

Also when I replace whereis to which error appear too

Can you provide more informative instruction to resolve this issue?
thank you a lot!

[nlesyuk]

@xlivan I resolve it by making update npm(to 6.9.0) and node (10.16.0).
Thank you a lot!

[ghost]

Im still stuck at project description

[nlesyuk]

Im still stuck at project description

What I did:

1. update npm , nodejs
2. installed npm install -g @vue/cli @vue/cli-init - it is latest version instaled
3. try again vue webpack-simple vue-project

it works for me

[ghost]

Im still stuck at project description

What I did:

1. update npm , nodejs
2. installed npm install -g @vue/cli @vue/cli-init - it is latest version instaled
3. try again vue webpack-simple vue-project

it works for me

Does this also work with nativescript-vue?

BTW thank you for your reply

[nlesyuk]

Im still stuck at project description

What I did:

1. update npm , nodejs
2. installed npm install -g @vue/cli @vue/cli-init - it is latest version instaled
3. try again vue webpack-simple vue-project

it works for me

Does this also work with nativescript-vue?

BTW thank you for your reply

I don't know about nativescript-vue, because I develop on vue.js (web only)

[geekhybrid]

Update vue

Run with npm install npm@latest -g