Yea.. I am noticing that and it is driving me crazy actually. I was actually able to confirm (because of debug errors) that the application has succesfully found the node_modules folder by crawling up two levels. So I guess npm ls is not particularly sincere about the missing dependencies. Could it be that it only looks for them in the CWD the "npm ls" is run from? It, unlike node, doesn't crawl up to locate the node_modules.
Anyway... it found the node_modules up two folders.. which is good. I moved it again just to test if it would locate it again. And it's driving me crazy because the error text keeps refering to node_modules in the folder where I moved it out of. So I guess it's cached somehow. Does anyone know how I can fully clear the cache? I am using PM2 to start my processes and restarting them doesn't clear that stuborn cache. Even stopping and deleting the processes completely and then starting them up again doesn't clear it. On Monday, November 18, 2013 11:23:52 AM UTC-5, Alex Kocharin wrote: > > > If you launch your application and rename (or even remove) node_modules > later, your application will still be working because of various caches. > > Answering an original question, yes, node_modules above the application > root should work fine, although default behaviour is to look for a > node_modules in cwd AND all folders up to the root, so if you split your > modules between several upper folders, it'll still work. > > > On Monday, November 18, 2013 7:29:39 PM UTC+4, vesper8 wrote: >> >> I just tried that.. npm ls. And it is giving me a bunch of errors about >> unmet dependencies. >> >> It's weird that my app seems to be working fine despite all the missing >> dependencies. But I did just notice that a few things appear to be broken. >> >> Now the question is, why isn't it finding the node_modules that is just >> above the application root? I thought the default behavior is to look for a >> node_modules in the CWD, and if none is found it crawls up the root and >> looks in those folders. >> >> As it stands the node_modules folder is two levels above the project root >> so it should find it easily? >> >> If I'm wrong in my assumptions, then how can I point it to the folder. >> That is, without having to modify hundreds of paths accross my project. >> >> On Monday, November 18, 2013 4:57:23 AM UTC-5, vesper8 wrote: >>> >>> Hello fellow programmers, >>> >>> I'm pretty new to node.js and I've just inherited a massive project >>> that's built in node and I need to prepare it for small team development. >>> >>> I apologize in advance for my newbieness.. I hope to become much better >>> at node.js in the coming months (I have no choice) >>> >>> I plan to use SVN and wanted to segment the existing project into many >>> smaller repos to lessen the chance of conflicts when being working on by >>> multiple people. >>> >>> One thing I want to do is move the node_modules out of the main >>> application repo because it causes commits and deployments to take waaay >>> too long because of how massive the node_modules folder is. >>> >>> I understand that the node_modules can be anywhere above the application >>> root so right now I've set it up so it looks like this: >>> >>> Before: >>> /var/myProjects/ProjectX/node_modules/ >>> /var/myProjects/ProjectX/app.js >>> /var/myProjects/ProjectX/everything else >>> >>> After: >>> /var/myProjects/node_modules/ >>> /var/myProjects/ProjectX/app.js >>> /var/myProjects/ProjectX/everything else >>> >>> I run my app and everything seems to be working fine. >>> >>> Now here's my confusion. I wanted to make sure that having moved the >>> node_modules folder one level up from my application root really worked. So >>> I went ahead and renamed the node_modules folder to "test". >>> >>> And low and behold.. my application doesn't break! It doesn't stop >>> working.. which has me very puzzled. Where is it loading the dependencies >>> from?? >>> >>> I noticed that /home/myUser/.npm/ appears to have all the same >>> node_modules as the ones that were in my application. Is it loading it from >>> there? How can I verify this? >>> >>> Is what I did ok? Moving node_modules up one folder I mean. >>> >>> Really appreciate your time. Thank you >>> >>> -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
