title: Getting for not founding Visual Studio 2017. Reason?
body: <pre><code> C:\Users\himan5hu\Documents\HTML\MyNode\Natours&gt; npm i ndb --global   
  C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\ndb -&gt; C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ndb\ndb.js
  
  &gt; node-pty@0.9.0 install C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ndb\node_modules\node-pty
  &gt; node scripts/install.js
  
  
  C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ndb\node_modules\node-pty&gt;if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node &quot;C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js&quot; rebuild )  else (node &quot;C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js&quot; rebuild ) 
  gyp ERR! find VS 
  gyp ERR! find VS msvs_version was set from command line or npm config    
  gyp ERR! find VS - looking for Visual Studio version 2017
  gyp ERR! find VS VCINSTALLDIR not set, not running in VS Command Prompt  
  gyp ERR! find VS checking VS2019 (16.7.30611.23) found at:
  gyp ERR! find VS &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community&quot;
  gyp ERR! find VS - found &quot;Visual Studio C++ core features&quot;
  gyp ERR! find VS - found VC++ toolset: v142
  gyp ERR! find VS - missing any Windows SDK
  gyp ERR! find VS checking VS2017 (15.9.28307.1274) found at:
  gyp ERR! find VS &quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools&quot;
  gyp ERR! find VS - found &quot;Visual Studio C++ core features&quot;
  gyp ERR! find VS - missing any VC++ toolset
  gyp ERR! find VS could not find a version of Visual Studio 2017 or newer 
  to use
  gyp ERR! find VS looking for Visual Studio 2015
  gyp ERR! find VS - not found
  gyp ERR! find VS not looking for VS2013 as it is only supported up to Node.js 8
  gyp ERR! find VS
  gyp ERR! find VS valid versions for msvs_version:
  gyp ERR! find VS 
  gyp ERR! find VS **************************************************************
  gyp ERR! find VS You need to install the latest version of Visual Studio 
  gyp ERR! find VS including the &quot;Desktop development with C++&quot; workload.  
  gyp ERR! find VS For more information consult the documentation at:      
  gyp ERR! find VS https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows
  gyp ERR! find VS **************************************************************
  gyp ERR! find VS
  gyp ERR! configure error 
  gyp ERR! stack Error: Could not find any Visual Studio installation to use
  gyp ERR! stack     at VisualStudioFinder.fail (C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:121:47)
  gyp ERR! stack     at C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:74:16
  gyp ERR! stack     at VisualStudioFinder.findVisualStudio2013 (C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:351:14)
  gyp ERR! stack     at C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:70:14
  gyp ERR! stack     at C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\find-visualstudio.js:372:16
  gyp ERR! stack     at C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\util.js:54:7
  gyp ERR! stack     at C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\util.js:33:16
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:310:5)  
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
  gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)     
  gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.18363
  gyp ERR! command &quot;C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe&quot; &quot;C:\\Users\\himan5hu\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js&quot; &quot;rebuild&quot;
  gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\himan5hu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ndb\node_modules\node-pty
  gyp ERR! node -v v12.18.4
  gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0
  gyp ERR! not ok
  + ndb@1.1.5
  updated 1 package in 47.034s
  </code></pre>
  <p>I have Installed visual studio 2019 with desktop development with C++.
  In cmd, npm config install -g windows-build-tools.
  cmd- npm config set msvs_version 2017. I dont understand why I am getting this error. Is it bad or I can work ignoring this.</p>