Report an EBADPLATFORM error during installation on MacOS

[ukea]

Describe the bug

Hi sir, When I tried to install vitepress by running the command npm add -D vitepress,

it reports an error:

npm error code EBADPLATFORM
npm error notsup Unsupported platform for esbuild-darwin-arm64@0.14.49: wanted {"os":"darwin","cpu":"arm64"} (current: {"os":"darwin","cpu":"x64"})
npm error notsup Valid os:   darwin
npm error notsup Actual os:  darwin
npm error notsup Valid cpu:  arm64
npm error notsup Actual cpu: x64
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/admin/.npm/_logs/2024-05-20T08_58_27_221Z-debug-0.log

Here is the log:
2024-05-20T08_58_27_221Z-debug-0.log

Reproduction

run the command npm add -D vitepress on M1 Mac mini in VSCode

Expected behavior

Vitepress installed successfully.

System Info

MacOS 14.4.1 (23E224)
Mac mini M1, 2020
VSCode info:

Version: 1.89.1 (Universal)
Commit: dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685
Date: 2024-05-07T05:14:24.611Z (1 wk ago)
Electron: 28.2.8
ElectronBuildId: 27744544
Chromium: 120.0.6099.291
Node.js: 18.18.2
V8: 12.0.267.19-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.4.0

Additional context

No response

Validations

• Check if you're on the latest VitePress version.
• Follow our Code of Conduct
• Read the docs.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that reports the same bug to avoid creating a duplicate.

[brc-dd]

Can you tell what's your node version (output of node --version, vscode likely has nothing to with this)? Can you try upgrading it to latest LTS?

I'm not sure but your node/npm looks broken because it's detecting cpu as x64 on m1. cpu should be arm64 on m1.

[ukea]

node version is v21.7.1 @brc-dd

[ukea]

Maybe it's because my vscode is Universal, not Apple Silicon? I guess.

[brc-dd]

Is it happening if you run from mac terminal instead of vscode's integrated one?

[brc-dd]

Can you share the output of following commands -

npm --version
node -e "console.log(process.arch)"

[ukea]

The same with the mac terminal. Maybe this is something wrong with package "esbuild-darwin-arm64"? @brc-dd

And the output of the prompt above is:

10.8.0
x64

Obviously my mac is not the x64 cpu

Many thanks~

[brc-dd]

It seems the issue is with your node installation. Can you try re-installing some other version? node -e "console.log(process.arch)" should log arm64 on m1.