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Reputation: 153

Cannot find module

I've changed my friends.js code from:

var friendDb = require('database/friends');

to

var friendDb = require('../database/friends');

And I've even tried explicitly calling friends as friends.json

But no matter what I do, I have no friends...

Error: Cannot find module '../database/friends'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:286:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/seanwilliamson/Desktop/streamcolor-v2.0/app/models/friends.js:2:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:434:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:452:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)

In all seriousness, here's the relevant app structure:

├── app
│   ├── models
│   │   ├── friends.js
│   │   └── responseGenerator.js

├── database
│   └── friends.json

The bottom comment from Chopper Lee of this stack post: Cannot find module in Nodejs mentioned something about "[setting] the system value : NODE_PATH; it should point to your global module location;"

So I tried that... and I have a whole separate post for the potential problem I'm having there but I'm not sure if it's related: echo $NODE_PATH returns two global installation paths (basically, I think I have two installation paths for my global modules whenever I run npm install -g [foo-module])

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2418

Answers (1)

Yuri Zarubin
Yuri Zarubin

Reputation: 11677

It should be:

var friendDb = require('../../database/friends');

Upvotes: 4

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