Trying to use newest versions of modules, having difficulty. about practicalnode

[squirrelsRduck]

here is my app.js

/**

• Module dependencies.
  */

var express = require('express');
var routes = require('./routes');
var user = require('./routes/user');
var http = require('http');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var methodOverride = require('method-override');
var errorhandler = require('errorhandler');

var app = express();

// all environments
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.use(favicon);
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser);
app.use(methodOverride);
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

// development only
if ('development' == app.get('env')) {
app.use(errorhandler);
}

app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/users', user.list);

var server = http.createServer(app);
var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);

io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
socket.on('messageChange', function (data) {
console.log(data);
socket.emit('receive', data.message.split('').reverse().join('') );
});
});

server.listen(app.get('port'), function(){
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});

[squirrelsRduck]

and here is my package.json:
{
"name": "favicon",
"version": "0.0.2",
"description": "find the url of a web site's favicon image",
"keywords": [
"favicon",
"icon",
"ico"
],
"homepage": "https://github.com/sentientwaffle/favicon",
"bugs": {
"url": "https://github.com/sentientwaffle/favicon/issues"
},
"author": {
"name": "sentientwaffle",
"url": "http://sentientwaffle.github.com/"
},
"main": "./index",
"scripts": {
"test": "mocha"
},
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "git://github.com/sentientwaffle/favicon.git"
},
"dependencies": {
"request": "2.x.x"
},
"devDependencies": {
"should": "0.x.x",
"mocha": "0.x.x"
},
"engines": {
"node": ">=0.4.1"
},
"_npmUser": {
"name": "sentientwaffle",
"email": "[email protected]"
},
"_id": "[email protected]",
"_engineSupported": true,
"_npmVersion": "1.0.106",
"_nodeVersion": "v0.4.9",
"_defaultsLoaded": true,
"dist": {
"shasum": "5a650d1e6684d300822ea8fe1f1f2eefcb4d3f91",
"tarball": "http://registry.npmjs.org/favicon/-/favicon-0.0.2.tgz"
},
"maintainers": [
{
"name": "sentientwaffle",
"email": "[email protected]"
}
],
"directories": {},
"_shasum": "5a650d1e6684d300822ea8fe1f1f2eefcb4d3f91",
"_from": "favicon@",
"_resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/favicon/-/favicon-0.0.2.tgz",
"readme": "ERROR: No README data found!"
}

[squirrelsRduck]

sorry, pasted the wrong package.json. I had been trying to debug the situation. this is the app's package.json:

{
"name": "application-name",
"version": "0.0.1",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"start": "node app.js"
},
"dependencies": {
"body-parser": "^1.10.0",
"error-handler": "^1.0.0",
"errorhandler": "^1.3.0",
"express": "^4.10.4",
"jade": "^1.8.1",
"logger": "0.0.1",
"method-override": "^2.3.0",
"morgan": "^1.5.0",
"socket.io": "^1.2.1"
}
}

[squirrelsRduck]

almost got this working. I needed to install serve-favicon instead of favicon. and I forgot the () after the methodOverride. So, right now, this pushes the argument data to the server's console output, but only after two GET requests for some reason. Meaning, there is a lag by 1 GET request, in the data that the console outputs for some reason. Here is my updated app.js file:

/**

• Module dependencies.
  */

var express = require('express');
var routes = require('./routes');
var user = require('./routes/user');
var http = require('http');
var path = require('path');
//var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var methodOverride = require('method-override');
var errorhandler = require('errorhandler');

var app = express();

// all environments
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
//app.use(favicon);
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended:true}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(methodOverride());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

// development only
if ('development' == app.get('env')) {
app.use(errorhandler);
}

app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/users', user.list);

var server = http.createServer(app);
var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);

io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
socket.on('messageChange', function (data) {
console.log(data);
socket.emit('receive', data.message.split('').reverse().join('') );
});
});

server.listen(app.get('port'), function(){
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});

[azat-co]

i'm not sure, try putting debuggers/console.logs in the routes!