I picked the Vue demo app when setting up a new AppFlow project.
Clone’d and “npm install” went fine. However ‘serve’ is broken.
I’ve not changed anything.
tchiverton@noctua:~/workspace/patient-pass-image-upload$ ionic serve
ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
at evalmachine.<anonymous>:47:5
at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/ionic-app-lib/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/gracef
ul-fs/fs.js:11:1)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/ionic-app-lib/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:3:27)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
primordials is not defined (CLI v1.7.16)
Your system information:
Cordova CLI: Not installed
Gulp version: CLI version: 2.2.0
Gulp local: Local version: 4.0.2
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.16
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.7.3
OS: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Node Version: v16.13.2
npm run serve does work however. I dunno what the difference is. Is there one ?
I did npm install -g ionic which worked, but has made no difference.
sudo npm install ionic to upgrade that had no effect
neither did node.js - I get the error: fs.js:36 } = primordials; ^ ReferenceError: primordials is not defined - Stack Overflow but that’s from a year ago
uninstalling my global gulp removed those two lines from the information list, but not other change.
sudo npm install -g @ionic/cli ← no change
sudo rm -rf `which ionic` /usr/local/bin/ionic
sudo npm install -g @ionic/cli
And now ionic serve says
[ERROR] Cannot perform serve.
Since you're using the Vue project type, you must provide the ionic:serve npm script so the Ionic CLI can serve
your project.
which doesn’t mean much to me.
ionic’s help page doesn’t suggest any options or other ways to run things.
Helllo! So it seems you have some very out of date deps (which make sense since you are pointing to the old Ionic CLI package).
npm uninstall -g ionic
npm install -g @ionic/cli
As for the [ERROR] Cannot perform serve. warning, I’d start off by deleteing the local node_modules and package-lock and try to reinstall the projects deps again.
rm -rf package-lock.json node_modules
npm install
This will at least get you to a updated starting point.
Can you provide your package.json please?
Best not to use sudo for all of this. Likely you are going down a rabbit hole very difficult to track back from
If you wnat me to mess with the whole O/S permissions, just so I can globally install Node modules without using sudo, we’re going to have a very short conversation @Tommertom
@mharrison yes, see above, I found that issue, and had to use a big hammer to provide it to upgrade.
So it works now, but I’ve no idea how to report the bug in the AppFlow demo application so that it really does Just Work rather than needing to hand tweak the package.json
@chiverton - I don’t think that is what I am trying to say, neither do I believe you should use profanity in any message. I will leave it up to you to edit the post so the conversation may go on in a more constructive way - hopefully leading to a solution to your problem.
Ya never stubbed your toe ? 
Closing as the discussion is getting heated. @chiverton Please try to keep the language civil here.