I can't install and run my Project located in GitHub repository with npm install

Question

I installed the project I use ReactJs on my computer via GitHub, but when I use the npm install command for dependencies, I get python-related errors even though my project is not related to python.

Project

Errors

The error log shows a file occured while trying to download node-v16.14.2-headers.tar.gz from https://nodejs.org :

npm ERR! gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v16.14.2/node-v16.14.2-headers.tar.gz
npm ERR! gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
npm ERR! gyp verb command remove [ '16.14.2' ]
npm ERR! gyp verb remove using node-gyp dir: C:\Users\oguzhan.duran\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache
npm ERR! gyp verb remove removing target version: 16.14.2
npm ERR! gyp verb remove removing development files for version: 16.14.2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack FetchError: request to https://nodejs.org/download/release/v16.14.2/node-v16.14.2-headers.tar.gz failed, reason: self signed certificate in certificate chain
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (C:\Users\oguzhan.duran\Desktop\case-app\node_modules\minipass-fetch\lib\index.js:110:14)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:526:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:442:9)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:538:35)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:157:8)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:122:3)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)```

Answer 1

In our case the issue was because of using node-sass behind an enterprise proxy. We could not manage to get node trusting the proxy's certificates so we decided to switch from

node-sass (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sass)

to

sass (Dart Sass, https://sass-lang.com/dart-sass)

which solved the issue for us. Node-Sass does require some downloads which dart sass does not. Dart Sass nearly seems to be a 1 to 1 replacement to node-sass, and as far as we have seen bigger frameworks (like Angular, React, etc.) already switched to it.

Maybe this might help...