Amplify-cli: Latest version 4.13.3-- can not init due to plugins error.

Created on 16 Feb 2020 · 6Comments · Source: aws-amplify/amplify-cli

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Describe the bug
Upgraded to aws-amplify/[email protected].

Attempt to init a new gatsby project to upload it to amplify fails with the following--

Error: Found no provider plugins
Run 'amplify plugin scan' to scan your system for provider plugins.
init failed

Scanning for plugins...
The following official plugins are missing or inactive:
awscloudformation: provider | [email protected]
codegen: util | [email protected]
mock: util | [email protected]
Plugin scan successful

To my knowledge, there should have been no change to these plugins as they worked the last 72 hours.

Amplify CLI Version
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4.3.3

To Reproduce
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amplify init

Expected behavior
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Expect to complete init without error as I have done the last few weeks and then setup git push to deliver to amplify

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Ubuntu 19.04, node version 12.15.0

Additional context
Have tried re-installing aws-amplify/cli, reinstalled all node_modules (local). I saw in prior errors of this kind on windows, users had to manually link plugins giving file path and name. I didn't see similar way to do on linux.

Source

weisisheng

Most helpful comment

Could we add a note to the docs specifying that you must use npm and must install the CLI globally? In the JS ecosystem, you can normally use yarn or npm as you please, and install globally or locally, so this behavior is quite confusing.

noise-machines on 16 Jun 2020

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After about 6 hours of grubbing around, found this recommendation, #2746. Removing the yarn global dir and reinstalling using npm seems to fix my problem. Ugh.

weisisheng on 16 Feb 2020

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Can confirm this issue is still relevant as of today, using yarn (on windows FWIW) will not let you init correctly. You need to install the cli with npm.