Installation fails on darwin-x64 (Intel MacBook)

[joewxboy]

When I follow the instructions and attempt to install, the following error prevents installation:

% npx create-socket-app react
Initializing npm package...Ok.
Installing developer dependencies...Ok.
Installing '@socketsupply/socket' locally (ssc not in PATH)
Installing dependencies...Ok.
Adding package scripts...Ok.
Creating socket files...
> feedback-cyborg@1.0.0 init-project
> ssc init --config

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package '@socketsupply/socket-darwin-x64' imported from /{my local path}/node_modules/@socketsupply/socket/bin/ssc.js
    at Object.getPackageJSONURL (node:internal/modules/package_json_reader:267:9)
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:768:81)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:854:18)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:984:11)
    at ModuleLoader.defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:780:12)
    at #cachedDefaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:704:25)
    at ModuleLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:687:38)
    at ModuleLoader.getModuleJobForImport (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:305:38)
    at onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:643:36)
    at TracingChannel.tracePromise (node:diagnostics_channel:344:14) {
  code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}
Ok.
Updating project configuration...
Unable to read socket.ini: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'socket.ini'
    at async open (node:internal/fs/promises:634:25)
    at async Object.readFile (node:internal/fs/promises:1238:14)
    at async main (file:///{my local path}/.npm/_npx/d5a408ba81afe2c4/node_modules/create-socket-app/index.js:286:14)

If I try to subsequently manually install @socketsupply/socket-darwin-x64 npm finds the package but will not install because the directory is not empty.

I've tried with 18.x and latest of Node installed via nvm.

[joewxboy]

On the same machine in an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM, it also throws an error, but a different one:

$ npx create-socket-app react
Initializing npm package...Ok.
Installing developer dependencies...Ok.
Installing '@socketsupply/socket' locally (ssc not in PATH)
Installing dependencies...Ok.
Adding package scripts...Ok.
Creating socket files...
> socket@1.0.0 init-project
> ssc init --config

/home/ubuntu/socket/node_modules/@socketsupply/socket-linux-x64/bin/ssc: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Ok.
Updating project configuration...
Unable to read socket.ini: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'socket.ini'

[heapwolf]

Hey @joewxboy, the Linux fix is easy, it appears you're just missing the libwebkit2gtk library, you can install it with sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0. We're currently not supporting pre-built binaries for darwin-x64 (anything older than M1 series), to run on older Macs you'll have to install from source.