[node.js 6.x support] Native module sources is not supported

[mehfuzh]

After updating to nativescript 2.0 when I try to install a plugin I am getting the following error:

(node:9070) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, please update it to a more recent version.

[NickIliev]

Hello @mehfuzh

Which version of node.js are you using?
This error is caused by some packages not supporting version 6 so if that is the case
you can try going back to 5.x

[NickIliev]

I have installed the latest nodejs v.6.0.0 and the issue is confirmed.
Installing any plugin via tns plugin add xxx will return
Support for node.js 6.0.0 is not verified. This CLI might not install or run properly.

@mehfuzh As a solution I recommend to use the recommended Node.js version (4.4.x) or any version lower then 6 (I have tested successfully with 5.9.x) - you can use NVM to easily switch within Node.js versions

[hekigan]

I can confirm that.
I had to rollback to v5.11.1
Do we know specifically which plugin is causing that?

In my package.json I only have the following:

...
"nativescript-drop-down": "^1.2.5",
"nativescript-telerik-ui": "^1.1.0",
"tns-core-modules": "2.0.0"
...

[enchev]

Hey folks,

Right now node.js 6.x is still not supported and we will do our best to add support in the next release.

Hey @rosen-vladimirov,

Can you list here everything that needs to be precompiled with node.js 6 here?

Thanks

[geminiyellow]

👍

[rosen-vladimirov]

Ooops, @enchev , sorry, I've somehow missed your comment.
When we want to support new Node.js version, there are a couple of C++ dependencies that we have to rebuild (and get the latest changes from their upstreams in case there are such changes). We've forked the C++ dependencies and modified them to use our own module called prebuilt. This allows us to distribute prebuilt binaries, so the end users will not need any tools when installing NativeScript CLI (rebuilding C++ dependencies requires Python, node-gyp, G++ or Visual Studio, based on the OS, etc.).
The dependencies that we have to rebuild are:

• bufferutil
• ffi
• fibers
• ref
• utf-8-validate

Also we have to update our dependencies that depend on any of these packages, which are:

• ios-sim-portable
• NodObjC
• ref-struct