Can't determine real reason behind fail of `nx release publish` due to inaccurate error handling

[tabomors]

Current Behavior

Currently on Gitlab CI we try are tryng to run nx release publish but it fails with error Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'summary') on this line https://github.com/nrwl/nx/blob/master/packages/js/src/executors/release-publish/release-publish.impl.ts#L240. This log hides the true cause of the error. It happens because this line https://github.com/nrwl/nx/blob/master/packages/js/src/executors/release-publish/release-publish.impl.ts#L237C7-L237C69 actually an empty object then it tries to get error.summary from it and fails

Expected Behavior

If there is no stdoutData.error I would expect to see original error:

const stdoutData = JSON.parse(err.stdout?.toString() || '{}');

console.error('npm publish error:');
if (err.stdout) {
  if (stdoutData.error.summary) {
    console.error(stdoutData.error.summary);
  }
  if (stdoutData.error.detail) {
    console.error(stdoutData.error.detail);
  }
} else {
  console.error(err);
}

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

Unfortunately I am not sure why this code goes to this point and how to provide steps to reproduce. I hope if error handling would be improved I can get back to this thread with more information

Nx Report

Node   : 18.12.0
OS     : linux-x64
npm    : 8.19.4
nx                 : 18.0.7
@nx/js             : 18.0.7
@nx/jest           : 18.0.7
@nx/linter         : 18.0.7
@nx/eslint         : 18.0.7
@nx/workspace      : 18.0.7
@nx/devkit         : 18.0.7
@nx/esbuild        : 18.0.7
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 18.0.7
@nx/nest           : 18.0.7
@nx/node           : 18.0.7
@nx/plugin         : 18.0.7
@nrwl/tao          : 18.0.7
@nx/webpack        : 18.0.7
typescript         : 5.3.3

Failure Logs

npm WARN config `_auth`, `_authToken`, `username` and `_password` must be scoped to a registry. see `npm help npmrc` for more information.
npm WARN config `_auth`, `_authToken`, `username` and `_password` must be scoped to a registry. see `npm help npmrc` for more information.
npm publish error:
Something unexpected went wrong when processing the npm publish output
 TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'summary')
    at runExecutor (/builds/ifi/frontend/core/.cache/modules-18/node_modules/@nx/js/src/executors/release-publish/release-publish.impl.js:176:34)
    at runExecutorInternal (/builds/ifi/frontend/core/.cache/modules-18/node_modules/nx/src/command-line/run/run.js:88:19)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async /builds/ifi/frontend/core/.cache/modules-18/node_modules/nx/src/command-line/run/run.js:169:44
    at async handleErrors (/builds/ifi/frontend/core/.cache/modules-18/node_modules/nx/src/utils/params.js:9:16)
    at async process.<anonymous> (/builds/ifi/frontend/core/.cache/modules-18/node_modules/nx/bin/run-executor.js:59:28)

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Additional Information

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[dkhrunov]

Same problem

• GitLab CI
• nx@17.0.3
• angular@~14.2.0

[adambiggs]

Also experiencing this

• GitHub Actions
• nx@18.1.3
• yarn@4.1.1

[tabomors]

For me updating of nx to the latest version helped, so I don't have errors during publish but still I guess it would be helpful to show users the real reason of failure if there are any

[adambiggs]

Digging a bit further, in my case the error was caused by one of our packages having a prepack lifecycle script that ran yarn build.

This adds the following lines to the command output, causing JSON parsing to fail:

> my-package-name prepack
> yarn build

Aside from surfacing this error, what's the recommended way to use the prepack hook with nx release?

[adambiggs]

Looks like this change in npm@10.5.0 is the root cause of my issue.

Adding --foreground-scripts false to the npm publish command should fix the issue.

[maratsh]

I have the same issue. whenver npm fails, I get

  npm publish error:
  Something unexpected went wrong when processing the npm publish output
   TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'summary')

[JamesHenry]

Hi Folks, sorry for the delay in acknowledging this one, it was actually addressed a while ao by #23850, please update to the latest Nx and you shouldn't see the same behaviour.

Please open a fresh issue with minimal steps to reproduce if you encounter any further issues.

Many thanks!

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