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Cannot find module 'glob' in newly generated project

See original GitHub issue

Seeing an issue with a newly generated project:

$ ng build
Could not start watchman; falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events.
Visit http://www.ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info.
BuildingCould not require 'angular-cli-build.js': Cannot find module 'glob'
Error: Could not require 'angular-cli-build.js': Cannot find module 'glob'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/cmartin/tmp/ngclitest/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/broccoli/angular2-app.js:3:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

Mac OSX El Capitan Angular CLI Version: latest master e5237f2f4f2cd040d493e30b647ee7343d6938bc Node: 4.4.2 NPM: 2.14.21

Repro steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-cli.git
$ cd angular-cli
$ git checkout e5237f2f4f2cd040d493e30b647ee7343d6938bc
$ npm i
$ npm link
$ cd /tmp
$ ng new ngclitest
$ cd ngclitest
$ ng test  # shows error
$ ng build # shows error

Workaround:

$ cd ngclitest # inside newly built project
$ npm i glob
$ ng test  # no error
$ ng build # no error

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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cgmartincommented, Apr 21, 2016

Aha! I did not expect that the globally installed (linked) command would require from the local project dependency context. That seems odd to me, but thank you!

1reaction

Broccocommented, Apr 21, 2016

glob was a dev dependency but has been moved to be a full dependency. This will be in the next release, you can find the correcting commit here

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