Installing autoprefixer without package manager

[NixBiks]

I work at a company where there are very strict rules about which software to install. Hence I don't have package manager tools like npm.

Is it possible to install autoprefixer without?

[ai]

Install npm on your machine and then put node_modules to git, so your node_modules will be available on this machine (you don’t need npm to use node_modules).

[NixBiks]

But if the machine can't install npm? That is my issue. I guess I'll have to accept...

[ai]

You don't need to install npm on every machine. Run npm install on one machine and then copy node_modules. For example, install at home at bring to work on USB stick.

[NixBiks]

For some reason that doesn't work. I use it through a flask app using webassets.

'postcss' is not recognized as an internal or external command

npm install autoprefixer works just fine and installs node_modules. I use win10. I've tried npm install postcss-cli autoprefixer as well without any luck.

[ai]

I am not sure that this error is related to non-npm environment. You get this error when you have wrong path for PostCSS binary.

Try to find correct option and set it to node_modules/.bin/postcss (don't forget to install npm first).

But I am not sure that my recommendation is correct for webassets you should all them. Or on StackOverflow.

[NixBiks]

Ahhh didn't realize the executable were in .bin. Although I now get Input Error: Did not receive any STDIN but that may be how webassets interacts with autoprefixer I suppose.

[NixBiks]

Wuhuu it works. Thank you for your kind help !

[NixBiks]

I might have been too fast. I don't get any error. But the following

:fullscreen a {
  display: flex; 
}

yields

:fullscreen a {
  display: flex; }


/*# sourceMappingURL=data:application/json;base64,eyJ2ZXJzaW9uIjozLCJzb3VyY2VzIjpbInN0ZGluIl0sIm5hbWVzIjpbXSwibWFwcGluZ3MiOiJBQUFBOztFQUVFO0FBQ0Y7RUFDRSxjQUFjLEVBQUUiLCJmaWxlIjoic3RkaW4iLCJzb3VyY2VzQ29udGVudCI6WyIvKiohXHJcbiogQ3VzdG9tIHNhc3NcclxuKi9cbjpmdWxsc2NyZWVuIGEge1xuICBkaXNwbGF5OiBmbGV4OyB9XG4iXX0= */

[ai]

Ask in webassets. Maybe Autoprefixer was not executed? Maybe webassets config is wrong.

[NixBiks]

I will. I've just noticed something with my original issue though. node_modules/.bin/postcss.cmd have the following content

@IF EXIST "%~dp0\node.exe" (
  "%~dp0\node.exe"  "%~dp0\..\postcss-cli\bin\postcss" %*
) ELSE (
  @SETLOCAL
  @SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT:;.JS;=;%
  node  "%~dp0\..\postcss-cli\bin\postcss" %*
)

Hence the machine has to have node.exe, which are only available by installing Node.js. So copying node_modules isn't sufficient as I see it?

[ai]

Yeap. You must have Node.js for it (it is not a package manager, it is JS runtime).

What runtime you use right now?

[NixBiks]

Ah yeh of course. I'm new in this game but now I get it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[hmsaini]

{
"name": "2-trillo",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"dependencies": {
"node-sass": "^4.9.4"
},
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^9.2.0",
"concat": "^1.0.3",
"npm-run-all": "^4.1.3",
"postcss": "^7.0.5"
},
"scripts": {
"watch:sass": "node-sass sass/main.scss css/style.css -w",

"start":"npm-run-all --parallel devserver watch:sass",
"devserver":"live-server",
"compile:sass": "node-sass sass/main.scss css/style.comp.css",
"prefix:css":"postcss --use autoprefixer -b 'last 10 versions' css/style.comp.css -o css/style.prefix.css",
"compress:css":"node-sass css/style.prefix.css css/style.css --output-style compressed ",
"build css":"npm-run-all compile:sass prefix:css compress:css"

},
"author": "Harpreet Saini",
"license": "ISC"
}

[hmsaini]

please help me...i am a window user & each time i got an error...

E:\MyWork\vscode\css\Practice css\css_course2\2-TRILLO>npm run start

[email protected] start E:\MyWork\vscode\css\Practice css\css_course2\2-TRILLO
npm-run-all --parallel devserver watch:sass

[email protected] watch:sass E:\MyWork\vscode\css\Practice css\css_course2\2-TRILLO
node-sass sass/main.scss css/style.css -w

[email protected] devserver E:\MyWork\vscode\css\Practice css\css_course2\2-TRILLO
live-server
'live-server' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] devserver: live-server
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] devserver script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\hspre\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-10-15T13_52_58_618Z-debug.log
ERROR: "devserver" exited with 1.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: npm-run-all --parallel devserver watch:sass
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\hspre\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-10-15T13_52_58_971Z-debug.log

E:\MyWork\vscode\css\Practice css\css_course2\2-TRILLO>

[ai]

Sorry, have no idea