I’m completely new to javascript development and I’m getting the following error as I work my way through the backbone_blueprints book. Here is the error I get:
> [email protected] start /Users/noahc/Projects/backbone_blueprints/blog > nodemon server.js module.js:340 throw err; ^ Error: Cannot find module '../lib/cli' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25) at Module.require (module.js:364:17) at require (module.js:380:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/noahc/Projects/backbone_blueprints/blog/node_modules/.bin/nodemon:3:11) at Module._compile (module.js:456:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10) npm ERR! Darwin 14.1.0 npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start" npm ERR! node v0.10.33 npm ERR! npm v2.1.11 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! [email protected] start: `nodemon server.js` npm ERR! Exit status 8 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script 'nodemon server.js'. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the simple-blog package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! nodemon server.js npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls simple-blog npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /Users/noahc/Projects/backbone_blueprints/blog/npm-debug.log ☹ ~/Projects/backbone_blueprints/blog npm install ruby-2.1.3 npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field. npm WARN package.json [email protected] No README data
Here is the debug log:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ 'node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'install' ] 2 info using [email protected] 3 info using [email protected] 4 verbose node symlink /usr/local/bin/node 5 error install Couldn't read dependencies 6 verbose stack Error: ENOENT, open '/Users/noahc/Projects/backbone_blueprints/package.json' 7 verbose cwd /Users/noahc/Projects/backbone_blueprints 8 error Darwin 14.1.0 9 error argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" 10 error node v0.10.33 11 error npm v2.1.11 12 error path /Users/noahc/Projects/backbone_blueprints/package.json 13 error code ENOPACKAGEJSON 14 error errno 34 15 error package.json ENOENT, open '/Users/noahc/Projects/backbone_blueprints/package.json' 15 error package.json This is most likely not a problem with npm itself. 15 error package.json npm can't find a package.json file in your current directory. 16 verbose exit [ 34, true ]
And this:
☹ ~/Projects/backbone_blueprints/blog which node ruby-2.1.3 /usr/local/bin/node ☺ ~/Projects/backbone_blueprints/blog which npm ruby-2.1.3 /usr/local/bin/npm
I thought it might be a path issue and so I added export NODE_PATH=/opt/lib/node_modules
to my .zshrc file and sourced it and that seemed to have no impact.
Any thoughts on anyway I can troubleshoot this or try to better understand what is actually happening?
Answer
I found the fix. I had to install nodemon globally doing this: npm install nodemon -g