npm premature close on jenkins build

Question

I'm setting up a Jenkins build for our internal NodeJS Express project.

The project uses some native libraries (written in C). After trial & error setting up Python, MSBuild Tools (with windows-build-tools and without), I didn't managed to get the build working.

Jenkins script:

pipeline {
  agent any

  stages {
    stage('Download source') {
        steps {
            checkout([
                $class: 'GitSCM', 
                branches: [[name: '*/branch-name']], 
                userRemoteConfigs: 
                [
                    [
                        credentialsId: 'cred-id', 
                        url: 'gitURL'
                    ]
                ]
            ])
        }
    }

    stage('Npm install') {
      steps {
        bat "npm install"
      }
    }
  }     
}

I've tried with the NodeJS plugin, same issue. Granted permissions to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins folder and every sub-directory, reinstalled everything (packages, Node with different versions, even my Windows OS), but the output is always:

step: npm install
npm ERR! premature close

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-04-04T16_69_111Z-debug.log

The weird thing is that when I run npm install from the %JENKINS_HOME%workspace/ProjectName folder, it builds and installs everything without any warnings or errors and runs smoothly.

Sorry for the long text, I've done a 3 week research on this topic, saw many articles and posts, but this problem has been for a longer period and we can't manage to build any of our Node projects.

Answer 1

The simplest way to solve this issue is just

yarn install instead of npm install

And then:
yarn add --save github:user/repo