Updating Node & NPM VS Cordova update 5

Question

I just download the VS Apache Cordova Tools Update 5 and I\'m running into problems with Node and NPM. I am using the default blank cordova project for testing.

Answer 1

The problem is that the version of npm that is bundled with the "latest stable" version of node does not properly install some of our npm packages. To fix this, open a command prompt and run:

npm -g install npm

To update npm to the latest version. This should fix the problem.

Edit 2/5/2016 - We have release Update 6 which fixes this problem. See our blog for more info: http://microsoft.github.io/vstacoblog/2016/02/04/announcing-update-6.html

(Disclosure: I work on the tools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio)