Issue Updating “aurelia-cli” or other global Node Modules?

As much as I love Npm, it can be quite buggy at times, especially on Windows.

One such error I encountered recently was trying to install the latest version of the Aurelia CLI by typing npm install -g aurelia-cli in most cases this just works and updates the existing version. However, a couple of times now, I kept getting some error about “ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename” and then something about a node_modules/.staging folder.

The fix is:

• Uninstall the dependency: npm uninstall -g aurelia-cli
• Clear your Npm cache: npm cache clean
• Then reinstall: npm install -g aurelia-cli