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Sjoerd Pottuit
Sjoerd Pottuit

Reputation: 2327

Command "encore" not found when trying yarn encore dev command

I am currently stuck at the Encore/Webpack installation. I followed the steps at symfony.com. But when continuing to the simple example I got stuck at running yarn encore dev. I get the error: "Command "encore" not found". I also have an error when running symfony server:start after installing Encore and navigating to a view:

An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template ("Could not find the entrypoints file from Webpack: the file "path/entrypoints.json" does not exist.").

As far as I know the entrypoints.json should have been autogenerated. I have Yarn 1.22.10 and NodeJS 14.16.1.

What I have done

I executed the commands composer require symfony/webpack-encore-bundle and yarn install

  1. I looked at StackOveflow questions 'error Command "encore" not found.' when running 'yarn run encore' in Symfony4, webpack encore dev-server not found /, Error Command "encore" not found. (separate backend webpack), Can't run encore dev
  2. I executed the command composer require webpack
  3. I noticed my package.json doesn't have a scripts object where the command encore dev is supposed to be living. I watched a YouTube video and followed it (https://youtu.be/Fs_4FMoSO90). That's why I know this. I wonder why I don't have it. Below is the package.json from the video. My package.json only has the dev dependency Bootstrap.
  4. Executed npm install

Package.json from video:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "@symfony/webpack-encore": "^0.31.0",
    "core-js": "^3.0.0",
    "regenerator-runtime": "^0.13.2",
    "webpack-notifier": "^1.6.0"
  },
  "license": "UNLICENSED",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "dev-server": "encore dev-server",
    "dev": "encore dev",
    "watch": "encore dev --watch",
    "build": "encore production --progress"
  }
}

My package.json:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "bootstrap": "^5.0.0"
  }
}

I removed the package.json, package-lock.json and executed yarn install again and it installed some packages. I didn't need NPM. I already got Bootstrap from my Yarn.lock (that's the only thing in there). I still have both errors though.

After Yivi's advice I executed composer req webpack, yarn install and yarn encore dev. The difference is that I executed composer require symfony/webpack-encore-bundle which is what is mentioned on the installation page on the symfony website. The yarn encore dev command tries to run webpack now, but I get the following error: Error: Encore.enableStimulusBridge is not a recognized property or method. webpack.config.js:26 Object.<anonymous>

webpack.config.js line 26

    // enables the Symfony UX Stimulus bridge (used in assets/bootstrap.js)
    .enableStimulusBridge('./assets/controllers.json')

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8857

Answers (1)

Sjoerd Pottuit
Sjoerd Pottuit

Reputation: 2327

Your advice worked msg. I installed the recipes with composer recipes:install symfony/webpack-encore-bundle --force -v and now yarn encore dev compiles webpack successfully. I now also know that I accidentally kept the package.json from the video in my project which explains why my error changed from Command encore not found to Error: Encore.enableStimulusBridge is not a recognized property or method. webpack.config.js:26 Object.<anonymous>

Upvotes: 3

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