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JavaScript Express Basics (2015) The Request and Response Objects in Express Requests and the request object

Anthony Scott
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Anthony Scott
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Posted by Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott
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error when starting nodemon

I am trying to run nodemon on the code I just checked out from git on the express-basics Requests and request objects video. I have had a ton of trouble with this nodemon and node-inspector portion of the course.

When I run node --debug src/app.js, I get:

Debugger listening on [::]:5858
module.js:442
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'express'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/antkn33/express-basics/src/app.js:3:15)
    at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:458:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:417:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:409:3)
[nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...

2 Answers

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
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Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
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What is on code line 3, in app.js?

    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/antkn33/express-basics/src/app.js:3:15)

I'm guessing it's 

var express = require('express');

Are you sure it's been downloaded correctly? If yes, you should be able to find it in "node_modules"

Anthony Scott
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Anthony Scott
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Anthony Scott
Anthony Scott
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Yeah, I think after downloading the code I should have run npm install

Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
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Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen
14,957 Points

Yes. It's not common practice to push all of the node_modules to git.

What's more common is to add dependencies to package.json and node_modules to .gitignore, and run npm install to download the dependencies yourself.