Bamboo - "ng command not found"

Question

I have recently installed Angular-CLI for use with Bamboo (Linux). I have verified that it works from the terminal, so I made a script task in Bamboo, which has one command: "ng build". But every time, logs show an error "ng: command not found".
What could be the source of this? The package has been installed globally, linked with NPM if that makes any difference, I have reinstalled it and verified cache, I have defined its path as an executable in Bamboo (command type, since Bamboo doesn't support Angular apparently?). I have made sure to check the command as the bamboo linux user, and it works there! But Bamboo itself doesn't see it, for some reason. Oh, and I'm using @angular/cli, as recommended.
I'm stumped, frankly. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been stuck on this for a few while now.

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@SSS writes...

I have added a bounty as I am having the same problem.

I am running Atlassian Bamboo v6.2.2 on Windows Server, and I get this error:

23-Apr-2020 13:49:20    + ng build --configuration=develop
23-Apr-2020 13:49:20    + ~~
23-Apr-2020 13:49:20        + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound:     (ng:String) [], CommandNotFoundE 
23-Apr-2020 13:49:20       xception
23-Apr-2020 13:49:20        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

My PowerShell script runs fine if I run it under my own credentials. I even added npm install -g @angular/cli to the script immediately before the ng build command, but that doesn't work either.

I think it is just a case of the Bamboo agent not being able to find the ng CLI, but I can't work out where it is located.

Answer 1

Hmm, very strange ... Can you please post your Script configuration (like what did you chose for Interpreter (e.g. Shell) and for the script location (e.g. Inline)) ? One option of what you can do is to add an executable (Bamboo Administration\Executables) and create an executable of type command (where you have to specify the path to your command) and then you can use this executable by adding a Task of type command to your plan.

Answer 2

I discovered a workaround by using

npm run ng build ...

inside the script, but I'd much prefer for the Angular CLI to work.

Answer 3

When the Bamboo agent starts as a service, it does not necessarily have the same PATH variable as when you type ng on the terminal. In particular on Windows, there was this long standing bug on the tool that started the Bamboo agent service and that has been solved in Bamboo >= 6.10.

In order to get an understanding of what is going on, just add for testing purpose a script task to your job that runs something like

echo "Printing PATH"
echo $PATH
which ng
echo "End printing PATH"

In the logs, you will certainly see that the printed PATH is not the same as the one you have in the terminal.

Possible workarounds for this would be:

• add some export PATH=/path/to/ng:$PATH in each of your scripts
• add ng as a global executable in Bamboo and use it as a ${bamboo.capability.system.builder.ng} variable
• add the path to ng in the script that starts your agent (will not work easily on Windows)

Note that ng by itself may certainly require other programs as well to be found in order to run properly.