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ccnokes
ccnokes

Reputation: 7115

NodeJS - setting up mean.io cannot find module errors

I'm sort of new to this whole "node" js thing. When trying to install the MEAN package from http://mean.io/, I followed these steps faithfully:

I "cd" to my directory, run "npm install", and then the "grunt" command, and get this error:

Error: Cannot find module 'coffee-script'

So I roll with the punches. npm install coffee-script, run "grunt" again.

Error: Cannot find module 'getobject'

Ever patient, I decide "okay, forget grunt". I run "node server". Then I get this error:

Error: Cannot find module 'merge-descriptors'

What's wrong? How can I get MEAN working here? (I thought npm was supposed to make life easier).

Update 12/31/13: When I look at the output of npm install, there are a number of "Error: EMFILE" errors. As I understand those errors are related to too many files being opened and graceful-fs is a solution to this. Sample EMFILE error pasted below:

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/cnokes/Desktop/mean-master
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.7
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.21
npm ERR! path /Users/cnokes/Desktop/mean-master/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/iconv-lite/README.md
npm ERR! code EMFILE
npm ERR! errno 20
npm ERR! tar.unpack error reading /var/folders/wv/xrm8qphn5bsgfj5w45kqrwl9lgq2j2/T/npm-27019/1388513549132-0.22752901865169406/tmp.tgz

With graceful-fs installed, I re-run npm install and get a couple of these errors: 

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, utime '/Users/cnokes/Downloads/mean-master2/node_modules/express/node_modules/fresh/index.js'

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10715

Answers (1)

Lior Kesos
Lior Kesos

Reputation: 294

I've run in to this and think this might be connected to another issue. Basically it's related to the number of open files (alot) that get open when we do a npm install. It has been blogged about nicely here - http://otaqui.com/blog/1618/how-to-fix-error-emfile-too-many-open-files-from-yeoman-and-npm/ and I update the mean FAQ https://github.com/linnovate/mean/wiki/Faq

Upvotes: 2

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