Here's a non-exhaustive list of environmental issues that you may encounter while working on GitHub Desktop:
If keytar fails to build on Windows with the following error during npm install:
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the keytar package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs keytar
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls keytar
Make sure you're using npm >= 2.15.9
PS> npm -g install npm@latest
and run npm install again
For more information see atom/node-keytar#45 and nodejs/node-gyp#972.