`npm install` fails on node-gyp rebuild with `gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected!`

Question

Every time I try npm install. I get the following error. How do I fix it?

gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected!

I am on n

Answer 1

On catalina i did the following:

xcode-select --print-path
sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

And since install command doesnt work, I had to download it from: https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

From there install:

XCode 12
Command Line Tools for XCode 12

Post that removed existing node_modules and reinstalled through npm install. It worked.