`node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build` failed during MeanJS installation on OSX

Question

I just bought myself a mac book after using Windows for a long time.

I was trying to work on a MeanJS project that I had been working on. Doing npm install

Answer 1

Happened to me on node 13.7.0 and npm 6.13.6 (macOS Mojave).

I had the following as part of my errors:

found X vulnerabilities (Y moderate, Z high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

And running the following fixed the problem:

1. $ npm audit fix

2. $ npm install