Hiya, I'm trying to authenticate the growthbook CLI as described here: https://docs.growthbook.io/tools/cli But I can't get it to work? I've installed the CLI with:

npm install growthbook --save

And package.json shows:

"growthbook": "^0.2.2",

The CLI doc says to run:

growthbook auth login --apiKey XXX

This doesn't work, giving an error:

command not found: growthbook

I looked at the github README: https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook-cli#commands Unfortunately, the code there also doesn't work for me:

npx growthbook auth login --apiKey

I see an error:

Cannot find module 'node:os'

Require stack:

- /xxx/node_modules/growthbook/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/config/config.js

- /xxx/node_modules/growthbook/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/config/index.js

I'm running node v14.16.1 and can't upgrade. 1. Does anyone know a way to run the CLI so I can use the types generation? 2. It'd be great to update the docs with the working command, and if there is a minimum version of node required, to make that information prominent?

I believe you are indeed facing a node version issue. I think we require v16 at minimum for the CLI tools. But perhaps @better-magician-65629 can confirm

node:os seems to be used in the @oclif package. I see that growthbook's usage seems to be a major version behind, and that as far as I can see, the current version "version": "3.11.3", doesn't use node:os. I wonder if upgrading growthbook's version of @oclif might be an idea? https://github.com/oclif/oclif/blob/main/package.json

yes we require a minimum node version of 16.x. you can find this info in the docs at the top. if you need to use an older version of node.js for your projects, you may want to consider using nvm to switch between node versions as needed.

Thanks @better-magician-65629! Somehow I missed that line in the doc...so I can use nvm to switch to node 16.x to run the CLI, then switch back to run our app? Cool.

yes. every version of node when using nvm will have its own set of packages/dependencies. so you'll need to switch to node 16 with nvm, then install it while you're on that version, and then you should be able to use it. if you haven't used nvm before, it may conflict with your current version of node, but you can install the current version of node in nvm too so it's easier to switch between them (and uninstall the one that you installed via the installer from the node.js website)

Hmm, perhaps I need to install the CLI globally instead of as part of package.json?

That is also what I'd recommend doing (global install)

Thank you!

it would need to be global if your project depended on an older version of node, but if your project uses node 16, then locally would work too, it just may not be recognized when running

growthbook

unless you've added local

node_modules

to your path (or is run via an

npm/yarn run

script

Hiya, I'm getting an error when I try to authenticate global growthbook? I've done this:

nvm install 16

nvm use 16

npm install -g growthbook

growthbook auth login --apiKey secret_admin_xxx

I'm getting this error:

What is the name of this profile? You can leave this blank (default: default):

›  Error: :boom: Invalid GrowthBook config. Configure the CLI with the following

›  command:

›

›  $ growthbook auth login

let me take a look. we had a contributed change recently in that area, i'm wondering if there's a bug.

fwiw, I had that bug 2 days ago as well, but it went away after opening and closing my terminal. Your mileage may vary

bryce if you were running it in the project, it looks like the version of the CLI in our project is the old version without the regression. i'm going to revert the contributed PR. i had caught another issue, and it looked like he fixed it, but obviously there's still an issue, so i'll revert that work.

Thank you! Amazing! I'll give this a try tomorrow.

that's strange, i didn't experience this issue. i'm also on mac. we don't do anything special, it's using npm like other packages. are you able to install other tools in node? also when you run

which node

and

which npm

is it pointing to the right one?

Hi @better-magician-65629 it's v16.20.2 in both cases, I just tried again and it's still stuck! Is idealTree a package?

was on PTO but i'm back now, did you figure this out?

Thank you, yes I did.