Build problems... 'Local Npm module "grunt-contrib-copy" (and others) not found.' about livecodelab

[rumblesan]

Hey @xinaesthete

apologies for the hassle, but the build system has changed, and I've been really bad at updating the docs :(

I changed over to using browserify, and having npm run the necessary build scripts because it massively simplified how things worked.

You should just be able to run

npm install
npm run devbuild
npm run serve

open up a browser, point it to http://localhost:8080 and then things should work. Have a look in package.json for all the individual build scripts.

I've been concentrating on the v2lang branch and got some of the changes merged into master, but I was lax on this front.

Hopefully that puts you on the right path. I'll update docs tomorrow

[xinaesthete]

Aha! Thanks for that.

While you're updating docs, you might add a sudo npm install -g browserify in there... although that still doesn't get me a working build, I'm afraid:

Peters-iMac:livecodelabOriginal Peter$ npm run devbuild

> [email protected] devbuild /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal
> npm run buildfirst && npm run compiledev


> [email protected] buildfirst /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal
> npm run statics && npm run style && npm run html && npm run jison


> [email protected] statics /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal
> cp -r ./static/* ./dist/


> [email protected] style /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal
> recess ./style/* --compile > ./dist/style.css


> [email protected] html /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal
> cp ./html/index.html ./dist/


> [email protected] jison /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal
> jison ./src/grammar/lcl-grammar.jison -m commonjs -o ./src/generated/parser.js


> [email protected] compiledev /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal
> browserify --debug -t coffeeify --extension='.coffee' ./src/coffee/lcl-init.coffee -o ./dist/app.js

module.js:339
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'through'
  at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:337:15)
  at Function.Module._load (module.js:287:25)
  at Module.require (module.js:366:17)
  at require (module.js:385:17)
  at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal/node_modules/coffeeify/index.js:2:15)
  at Module._compile (module.js:435:26)
  at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)
  at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
  at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
  at Module.require (module.js:366:17)
  at require (module.js:385:17)
  at nr (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/browserify/node_modules/module-deps/index.js:282:21)
  at onfile (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/browserify/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:51:21)
  at onex (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/browserify/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:93:22)
  at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/browserify/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:24:18
  at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)


npm ERR! Darwin 14.5.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "compiledev"
npm ERR! node v4.2.2
npm ERR! npm  v2.14.7
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] compiledev: `browserify --debug -t coffeeify --extension='.coffee' ./src/coffee/lcl-init.coffee -o ./dist/app.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] compiledev script 'browserify --debug -t coffeeify --extension='.coffee' ./src/coffee/lcl-init.coffee -o ./dist/app.js'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the livecodelab package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     browserify --debug -t coffeeify --extension='.coffee' ./src/coffee/lcl-init.coffee -o ./dist/app.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls livecodelab
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal/npm-debug.log

npm ERR! Darwin 14.5.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "devbuild"
npm ERR! node v4.2.2
npm ERR! npm  v2.14.7
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] devbuild: `npm run buildfirst && npm run compiledev`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] devbuild script 'npm run buildfirst && npm run compiledev'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the livecodelab package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     npm run buildfirst && npm run compiledev
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls livecodelab
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/Peter/Documents/code/www/livecodelabOriginal/npm-debug.log

[xinaesthete]

Oh yeah, I should mention, I did also try this with v2langupdate and get much the same result.

[rumblesan]

hhmm, are you doing that npm run devbuild after a git clean to remove anything that may have been in your node_modules folder?

It shouldn't be necessary to install browserify globally as well. It gets pulled down by npm when running npm install.
I'm making an assumption that you're on OSX/Nix btw. Windows is a bit of an unknown quantity, but should still be fine.

[xinaesthete]

I hadn't done git clean, worth a shot...

I added through and convert-source-map which at least let it npm run devbuild without errors. Doing a fresh npm install now.

[xinaesthete]

Yes, git clean did help. Got it running now. Will check Windows and let you know if I have any different experience there (I doubt it).

[rumblesan]

ah ha, glad to hear it's all working for you. I'll do a bit more cleanup on master around the build system and get the docs sorted.

Sometimes I forget that this is an open source project and there are actually other people looking at the code :)