By Drew Payment
I am trying to deploy and Angular Universal app in a NX monorepo onto app platform, but I get the follow error during in the postinstall step after yarn install when the NX monorepo executes its decorate-angular-cli.js. It is trying to move a sock file in a cache directory inside node_modules from what I understand. I’m definitely not an expert at NX and am starting to wonder if I’m in over my head, help!
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:02:12] [5/5] Building fresh packages...
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:13] $ node ./decorate-angular-cli.js && ngcc --properties es2015 browser module main
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:15]
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:15] > NX Angular CLI has been decorated to enable computation caching.
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:15]
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:22] Processing legacy "View Engine" libraries:
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:22] - ngx-file-drop [es2015/esm2015] (georgipeltekov/ngx-file-drop)
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:24] - ngx-file-drop [main/umd] (georgipeltekov/ngx-file-drop)
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:24] Encourage the library authors to publish an Ivy distribution.
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:25] Done in 349.58s.
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:03:25]
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:04:44] cp: cannot create special file '/layers/digitalocean_node/node_modules/.cache/nx/d/d.sock': Operation not supported
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:04:44] unable to invoke layer creator
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:04:44] caching node_modules for future builds: exit status 1
[frontend] [2022-05-21 20:04:44] ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1
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The issue you’re experiencing seems to be related to an operation trying to create a special file in the cache directory, but it’s not supported on your configuration. Understandably, NX monorepos could be complex if you’re not familiar with them.
I’d recommend looking into the process that is calling the ‘cp’ command. This process is trying to create a .sock file, which is a Unix Domain Socket file, and it seems that your current environment or settings aren’t supporting this operation. You may need to review your permissions. Also, check the usage of decorate-angular-cli.js, Angular Universal App, and NX as it pertains to your app platform.
Learn more about managing and troubleshooting your Angular Universal App on DigitalOcean in the DigitalOcean documentation.
Hope that this helps!
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