Version 0.8.0 is broken on Windows: SyntaxError: Unexpected token < about express-react-views

[zpao]

Ok, so the problem is going to be how we register the transform. The big change in 0.8 was to switch to babel, which meant that we changed how we detected what needed to be transformed.

Specifically we now build up a regex and pass that into babel. AFAIK this was only tested on *nix so presumably we need to either build a better regex or there's bug in babel (I'm assuming it's our problem though).

I don't have a Windows machine super handy but this will hopefully be a pretty small fix. Would you or @gocreating be willing to help out and do a little bit of detective work to make the regex match what's being required? (might need to do options.settings.replace('\', '\\'), some logging of the regex being built and the filename should be enlightening)

[gocreating]

@zpao excuse me, I am not familiar with regex and react, and I think I cannot help you in the meantime.
This is a great project, and I take it as part of my seed project :)

[kohei-takata]

I use node-jsx and the error did not happen.

I run npm install node-jsx and added require('node-jsx').install(); above the router.

[xuteng]

I got the same problem , To fix it ,I readed the Babel's docs and finded that the 'only' requires an array of glob paths, so I modified the index.js

var onlyArry = [];
  onlyArry.push(options.settings.views);
  moduleDetectRegEx = new RegExp('^' + options.settings.views);
  require('babel/register')({
    only: onlyArry
  });
  registered = true;

It fixed.

[zpao]

@xuteng - Hmm, http://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/ indicates it takes a regex. And actually looking at the src (https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/src/babel/api/register/node.js#L154) it looks like both will work and it'll convert to an array and regex from that. So I think all that you're really doing is creating a regex without the leading ^.

Can you log what options.settings.views and filename are? My concern with leaving off part of the regex is that we'll inadvertently catch files outside the view path.

[xuteng]

The options.settings.views and filename are:

Thank you for pointing out the mistake.
However the regex I got is (?:(?=.)d:\/(?=.)work\/(?=.)newWork\/(?=.)views) at last when passed an array at https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/src/babel/util.js#L99