[🐞] disable colors

[MarcWeber]

Which component is affected?

Qwik Runtime

Describe the bug

pnpm run build

src/tsmono/u-spawn/index.ts:152:23 - error TS2339: Property 'end' does not exist on type 'Readable'.

152             y.stderr?.end()
                          ~~~


Found 96 errors in 29 files.

Errors  Files
     1  src/components/layout.tsx:4
     1  src/components/public-page.tsx:110
     5  src/i18n.ts:7

The file:line:col error lines contain colors. And nothing switches it off. I tried:

export FORCE_COLOR=0; export  NO_COLOR=true;  export NODE_DISABLE_COLOR=1

Not sure whether vite eslint or whatever is the problem. It would be nice if some env vars would get that job done. The reason is that I use Neovim to load the log into qwickfix. Yes could be piping through ansifilter. It should be env vars so that you can easily run with colors in terminal and without using any script.

Reproduction

https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-u3bcvkw2?file=src%2Froutes%2Findex.tsx

Steps to reproduce

run npm install followed by export FORCE_COLOR=0; export NO_COLOR=true; export NODE_DISABLE_COLOR=1; npm run build. In index.tsx I removed a } to cause a syntax error. The error line contains colors. I also tried npm run build | cat also fails.

System Info

Don't think this matters anyway:
  System:
    OS: Linux 6.6 cpe:/o:nixos:nixos:25.11 25.11 (Xantusia)
    CPU: (8) x64 AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
    Memory: 14.01 GB / 37.08 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.9 - /run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 24.0.2 - /run/current-system/sw/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.22 - ~/node_modules/.bin/yarn
    npm: 11.3.0 - /run/current-system/sw/bin/npm
    pnpm: 9.15.9 - ~/node_modules/.bin/pnpm
    bun: 1.2.13 - /run/current-system/sw/bin/bun
  Browsers:
    Chromium: 136.0.7103.113
  npmPackages:
    @builder.io/qwik: ^1.15.0 => 1.15.0 
    @builder.io/qwik-city: ^1.15.0 => 1.15.0 
    typescript: 5.4.5 => 5.4.5 
    undici: * => 7.13.0 
    vite: 5.3.5 => 5.3.5

Additional Information

No response

[gioboa]

Hi 👋 @MarcWeber
I tried to reproduce this issue but I can't.
Can you share a GH repo to clone or a list of steps to reproduce this issue please?

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Issues marked with STATUS-2: missing info will be automatically closed if they have no activity within 14 days.
Thanks 🙏

[MarcWeber]

Sry, you can reproduce with pnpm run only. I didn't expect there to be a difference. So we're close to understanding the cause.

[gioboa]

🤔 that's weird, so it's not a Qwik issue, right?

[MarcWeber]

By debugging process.env in qwik-cli.js I found it the env var making the difference:

  'npm_config_user_agent': 'npm/11.3.0 node/v24.0.2 linux x64 workspaces/false',

I thought its a qwik/vite issue because its responsible for calling the tools thus passing NO_COLOR like flags.
Right now I have no idea what that option actually means.

[gioboa]

is this still an issue?

[github-actions]

Hello @MarcWeber. Please provide the missing information requested above.
Issues marked with STATUS-2: missing info will be automatically closed if they have no activity within 14 days.
Thanks 🙏

[MarcWeber]

I will close it not because its sloved but because I used ansifilter and it can be worked around by using npm run instead of pnpm. Also because its unclear where this bug belongs and maybe its the coloring libraries and not Qwik. Don't have time to find the cause right now.