this error is pretty vague, anyone have an idea of what's going on here or how I can debug?

Created stack 'dev'
Previewing update (dev):
     Type                 Name              Plan     Info
     pulumi:pulumi:Stack  azurenetwork-dev           1 message
 
Diagnostics:
  pulumi:pulumi:Stack (azurenetwork-dev):
    error: It looks like the Pulumi SDK has not been installed. Have you run npm install or yarn install?
 
error: failed to load language plugin nodejs: could not read plugin [/Users/jonbrwn/.pulumi/bin/pulumi-language-nodejs] stdout: EOF

Just like the error says `error: It looks like the Pulumi SDK has not been installed. Have you run npm install or yarn install?`…have you run either

npm install

or

yarn install

?

yes, I previously attempted to run

npm install

in the same directory and the error still appears.

what does your package.json look like @icy-engineer-10830?

this fixed it:

npm install --save @pulumi/pulumi

not sure if the problem had to do with a recent npm update or a pulumi update

Hmm that package would have been installed, by default, when you bootstrapped the new project. How did you create your project/stack? Did you use

pulumi new

at all?

@clever-sunset-76585 no, is that recommended for automated projects?

No it is not a recommendation per se. It’s a convenient way to create a new project with the default packages that are needed. You can always create a new project, and stack running the individual commands as you need, but you should make sure that you always add the core

npm

packages as

dependencies

(speaking for the NodeJS runtime, of course.) The core dependencies being the

@pulumi/pulumi

and the respective provider package, i.e.

@pulumi/aws

,

@pulumi/kubernetes

,

@pulumi/azure

etc.

@clever-sunset-76585 projects that are predefined and shared. so should a package.json be included in the directory to ensure those get installed? i.e. making sure users run

npm install

and then

pulumi up

so should a package.json be included in the directory to ensure those get installed? i.e. making sure users run `npm install`and then

pulumi up

Yes. It should be in the same directory as your pulumi app code, i.e. where the

index.ts

file is located.

got it, thanks

Also, not sure if you have seen our tutorials (which sources examples from the examples repo), but have a look at: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/tutorials/ or if you prefer browsing the GitHub repo directly: https://github.com/pulumi/examples