Error: EACCES: permission denied with local npm install

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I’m trying to build a dev env for ReScript lang and I got this shell.nix that’s calls nix/default.nix and so on:

shell.nix:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

with pkgs;

let
  rescript-src = ./nix/default.nix;

  rescript = (import rescript-src { inherit pkgs; }).rescript9;
in mkShell {
  name = "kirby_dev";

  buildInputs = [ rescript nodejs ]; 

  shellHook = ''
    mkdir -p ./node_modules/.bin
    ln -sfn ${rescript} ./node_modules/rescript
    ln -sfn ${rescript}/bin/* ./node_modules/.bin
    echo "rescript linked to $(pwd)/node_modules/bs-platform"
    npm install
  '';
}

default.nix:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

with pkgs;

{
  rescript9 = import ./build-rescript.nix {
    inherit stdenv lib fetchFromGitHub ninja runCommand nodejs python3;

    version = "9.1.4";

    ocaml-version = "4.12.0";

    src = fetchFromGitHub {
      owner = "rescript-lang";
      repo = "rescript-compiler";
      rev = "9.1.4";
      sha256 = "0s7g2zfhshsilv9zyp0246bypg34d294z27alpwz03ws9608yr7k";
      fetchSubmodules = true;
    };
  };
}

build-rescript.nix:

{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, ninja, runCommand, nodejs, python3,
  ocaml-version, version, src,
  ocaml ? (import ./ocaml.nix {
    version = ocaml-version;

    inherit stdenv lib;

    src = "${src}/ocaml";
  }),
  custom-ninja ? (ninja.overrideAttrs (attrs: {
    src = runCommand "ninja-patched-source" {} ''
      mkdir -p $out
      tar zxvf ${src}/vendor/ninja.tar.gz -C $out
    '';

    patches = [];
  }))
}:
stdenv.mkDerivation {
  inherit src version;

  pname = "rescript";

  buildInputs = [ nodejs python3 custom-ninja ];

  patchPhase = ''
    sed -i 's:./configure.py --bootstrap:python3 ./configure.py --bootstrap:' ./scripts/install.js
    mkdir -p ./native/${ocaml-version}/bin
    ln -sf ${ocaml}/bin/*  ./native/${ocaml-version}/bin
    rm -f vendor/ninja/snapshot/ninja.linux
    cp ${custom-ninja}/bin/ninja vendor/ninja/snapshot/ninja.linux
  '';

  dontConfigure = true;

  buildPhase = ''
    # release build https://github.com/BuckleScript/bucklescript/issues/4091#issuecomment-574514891
    node scripts/install.js
  '';

  installPhase = ''
    mkdir -p $out/bin
    cp -rf jscomp lib vendor odoc_gen native $out
    cp bsconfig.json package.json $out
    ln -s $out/lib/bsb $out/bin/bsb
    ln -s $out/lib/bsc $out/bin/bsc
    ln -s $out/lib/bsrefmt $out/bin/bsrefmt
  '';
}

ocaml.nix:


{ stdenv, lib, src, version }:

stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  inherit src version;

  name = "ocaml-${version}+bs";

  configurePhase = ''
    ./configure -prefix $out
  '';

  buildPhase = ''
    make -j9 world.opt
  '';

  meta = with lib; {
    branch = "4.12.0";
    platforms = platforms.all;
  };
}

However, when I try to enter the shell I get this permission error:

npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /home/matthew/documents/prefeitura/kirby/node_modules/bs-platform
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/matthew/documents/prefeitura/kirby/node_modules/bs-platform'
npm ERR!  [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/matthew/documents/prefeitura/kirby/node_modules/bs-platform'] {
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/home/matthew/documents/prefeitura/kirby/node_modules/bs-platform'
npm ERR! }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/matthew/.npm/_logs/2021-07-14T04_32_19_826Z-debug.log

why npm is trying to access bs-platform folder if I’m creating the rescript folder?
what I could do to improve this dev env?

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cleaning derivations gives me another error:

npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /home/matthew/documents/prefeitura/kirby/node_modules/bs-platform
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/home/matthew/documents/prefeitura/kirby/node_modules/bs-platform'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/matthew/.npm/_logs/2021-07-14T04_39_57_791Z-debug.log
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Got the same issue, I wonder if you found a solution?

I ended up not installing globally, and referencing commands with a path into a local node_modules