node-addon-api cannot be located during npm install

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, node.js
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Reproduce the failure from the hello world example's node-addon-api directory with npm install and node -p "require('node-addon-api').include"; inspect the binding.gyp reference and compare it with the working napi directory. Done means the dependency resolves during installation and the example can build successfully.

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Description

I am having a very strange bug. I am inside the node-addon-api dir of the hello world example and when I try to follow the instructions, I get a failure after command:
npm install

essentially it complains that it cannot find node-addon-api when the fline:
node -p "require('node-addon-api').include"
is executed to get the include dir for the binding.gyp file.

I am including the whole log for reference.

I have no idea why it's not able to find the module, sinc this error persists even when I insttall it directly:
npm install node-addon-api

I tried building the n-api dir and it worked no problem:
#inside napi dir
npm install
node-gyp rebuild
node ./
2019-01-12T19_08_43_417Z-debug.log

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