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generating new nestjs module results in Error: Failed to execute command

I'm using MacOS monterey with M1 chip as my operating system. installed NestJS cli using this command: sudo npm install -g @nestjs/cli

when creating new nest project using nest new message everything works fine, but when I try to create new module using this command nest generate module messages I face error.

why does this happen? I tried installing schematics using npm i -g @nestjs/schematics, I don't know if I should've installed it but this didn't help anyway.

The error I face is:

/Users/homayoun/training/messages/node_modules/@angular-devkit/schematics-cli/bin/schematics.js:338
            throw new Error(`Unknown argument ${key}. Did you mean ${(0, yargs_parser_1.decamelize)(key)}?`);
                  ^

Error: Unknown argument skipImport. Did you mean skip-import?
    at parseArgs (/Users/homayoun/training/messages/node_modules/@angular-devkit/schematics-cli/bin/schematics.js:338:19)
    at main (/Users/homayoun/training/messages/node_modules/@angular-devkit/schematics-cli/bin/schematics.js:122:49)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/homayoun/training/messages/node_modules/@angular-devkit/schematics-cli/bin/schematics.js:367:5)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:77:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47

Failed to execute command: node @nestjs/schematics:module --name=messages --no-dry-run --no-skipImport --language="ts" --sourceRoot="src" --spec.

worth noting that I don't face any issues when I do the same thing on ubuntu 20 or 22

Solution

  • Quick solution:

    1. add this to your nest-cli.json
    "root": "src"
    1. change into the src of your project folder
    cd src
    1. run
    nest generate module messages

    if the above does not work also try changing the version of packages in package.json to

    "@nestjs/cli": "8.2.6",
"@nestjs/schematics": "8.0.11",

    removing the node modules in the current project reinstalling the nest cli with

    npm uninstall -g @nestjs/cli
npm i -g @nestjs/cli@8.2.6