Same problem actually if I move the require('grpc') inside of main.js
```
main.js
'use strict';
var grpc = require('grpc');
const electron = require('electron');
```
Throws the same error
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Stefan Doerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure. I tried using it through Electron. So I just start the main.js with
> electron and get the error in the js console.
>
> ```
> main.js
>
> 'use strict';
>
> const electron = require('electron');
> const app = electron.app;
> const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow;
>
> require('electron-debug')({showDevTools: true});
>
> var mainWindow = null;
>
> app.on('ready', function() {
> mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
> height: 600,
> width: 800,
> });
>
> mainWindow.loadURL('file://' + __dirname + '/app/webapp.html');
> mainWindow.setMenu(null);
> });
> ```
>
> ```
> webapp.html
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html lang="en">
> <head>
> <title>webapp</title>
> <meta charset="utf-8">
> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no,
> minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome.min.css" />
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" />
> <link rel="subresource" href="css/light.css" />
> <link rel="subresource" href="css/dark.css" />
> </head>
> <body>
> <!-- Insert this line above script imports -->
> <script>if (typeof module === 'object') {window.module = module; module =
> undefined;}</script>
>
> <!-- normal script imports etc -->
> <!-- NGL -->
> <script src="dist/ngl.js"></script>
>
> <!-- UI -->
> <script src="js/lib/signals.min.js"></script>
> <script src="js/lib/tether.min.js"></script>
> <script src="js/lib/colorpicker.min.js"></script>
> <script src="js/ui/ui.js"></script>
> <script src="js/ui/ui.extra.js"></script>
> <script src="js/ui/ui.ngl.js"></script>
> <script src="js/gui.js"></script>
>
> <!-- Insert this line after script imports -->
> <script>if (window.module) module = window.module;</script>
> </body>
> <script>
>
> //var PROTO_PATH = __dirname + '/../communication.proto';
> var PROTO_PATH = '../communication.proto';
> var grpc = require('grpc');
> var hello_proto = grpc.load(PROTO_PATH).helloworld;
>
> /**
> * Implements the SayHello RPC method.
> */
> function sayHello(call, callback) {
> callback(null, {message: 'Hello ' + call.request.name});
> }
>
> /**
> * Starts an RPC server that receives requests for the Greeter service
> at the
> * sample server port
> */
> function main() {
> var server = new grpc.Server();
> server.addService(hello_proto.Greeter.service, {sayHello:
> sayHello});
> server.bind('0.0.0.0:50051', grpc.ServerCredentials.
> createInsecure());
> server.start();
> }
>
> main();
> console.log('Started server?')
> </script>
> </html>
> ```
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 12:40 AM, Spencer Fang <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Can you share the commands you ran that led to this error?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:41 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to use gRPC for the first time but I am getting following
>>> error:
>>>
>>> Uncaught Error: Failed to load gRPC binary module because it was not
>>> installed for the current system
>>> Expected directory: electron-v1.8-linux-x64-glibc
>>> Found: [node-v57-linux-x64-glibc]
>>> This problem can often be fixed by running "npm rebuild" on the current
>>> system
>>> Original error: Cannot find module '/home/stefan/Work/myproj/node
>>> _modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/electron-v1.8-linux-
>>> x64-glibc/grpc_node.node'
>>> at Object.<anonymous> (/home/stefan/Work/myproj/node
>>> _modules/grpc/src/grpc_extension.js:53:17)
>>> at Object.<anonymous> (/home/stefan/Work/myproj/node
>>> _modules/grpc/src/grpc_extension.js:63:3)
>>> at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
>>> at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
>>> at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
>>> at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
>>> at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
>>> at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
>>> at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
>>> at Object.<anonymous> (/home/stefan/Work/ElectroNGL/
>>> node_modules/grpc/src/client.js:37:12)
>>>
>>>
>>> I checked and my node.js version should be supported
>>> $ node --version
>>> v8.9.3
>>>
>>>
>>> Could you help me out with this?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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