I have a flow that sits in the background and pulls down the weather from Darksky - it is a direct cut and paste of one that Peter Scargill put up a while ago - all i have changed is to put my credentials in there.
This has been running fine for about 3 months now.
I just upgraded the Node-red-contrib-moment node to 2.02 - when i went to restart Node-red after that completed i received an error that -Darksky-credentials was not present and it halted my deployment.
When i checked it did look like the Nodes had been deleted from the palette.
So i readded and restarted node-red - see screenshot below - once i did that all good
My question is - 1) why would another node being installed delete something like this ? 2) Where do you go to troubleshoot - is it just the node-red logs ?
I do not remember installing the DarkSky stuff manually before - but may have done as part of the original setup from Peter Scargill.
My VM is setup from a script that Peter has developed and the majority of the nodes in the palette were in there from him - so it may be the case that some of them were manually installed.
Thanks for the quick answer.
In relation to the 2nd part of my question - other than the node-red log is there anything else more indepth for troubleshooting or do i just fall back on standard linux tools then ?
OK this is getting weirder - I have been on Node 6 for ages - recently upgraded to Node-red 19 when Nick announced it.
I have a heap of nodes that have suddenly disappeared (none that i use) that would have all been installed as part of the Peter Scargill script. He had a whole section of nodes for Red-bot - that has all disappeared - something must have triggered this - not exactly sure when they went - can only surmise at the same time as the Dark-Sky stuff - not sure if this is the NPM 5 bug that you have documented as i have been on 6 since this was setup so it should have happened before now if that was responsible.
node != npm .... node6 came with npm3 (I think)... node8 comes with npm5 (and now 6)
so yes if you upgraded from node 6 to 8 then npm would also have upgraded and will be doing as per above.
The key is they were installed originally without the -save option then the package.json in ~/.node-red won't include them and so the new npm will remove them...
Fortunately npm 5 also does the -save by default so anything now installed should end up in there ok.
I know it is OT for here, but it really is unfriendly of npm to do this without saying "About to delete all these nodes, OK?" before doing it. At least you would then have a list of nodes that you could add to package.json if necessary.
