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Error: Cannot find module 'node_modules/is-buffer/index.js' from ...

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$ cat buf.js 
module.exports = function (b) { return Buffer.isBuffer(b) }
$ npm i browserify
...
$ ./node_modules/.bin/browserify buf.js 
Error: Cannot find module 'node_modules/is-buffer/index.js' from '/home/kirill/tmp'
    at /home/kirill/tmp/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:46:17
    at process (/home/kirill/tmp/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:173:43)
    at ondir (/home/kirill/tmp/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:188:17)
    at load (/home/kirill/tmp/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:69:43)
    at onex (/home/kirill/tmp/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:92:31)
    at /home/kirill/tmp/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:22:47
    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)
$ vim buf.js
$ cat buf.js
;(function () { new Buffer(0) })()
module.exports = function (b) { return Buffer.isBuffer(b) }
$ ./node_modules/.bin/browserify buf.js 
(function e(t,n,r){function s(o, ... // ok

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:17 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

goto-bus-stopcommented, Feb 28, 2018

This should be fixed in insert-module-globals@7.0.2; do npm update to get it!

2reactions

MirFahad58commented, Feb 19, 2020

Just do this => npm install is-buffer --save

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