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Cannot find module graphql

See original GitHub issue

After installing with npm install -g graphql-code-generator, I get the following error:

MacBook-Pro-2:stephanie-website ed$ gql-gen init
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:582
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'graphql'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:580:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:506:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/local/lib/node_modules/graphql-code-generator/dist/load.js:39:17)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:688:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:699:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:598:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:537:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:529:3)

I’m using npm 6.5.0 Mac OS Mojave, npm is installed from Macports.

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

ardatancommented, Dec 28, 2018

Did you try to run npm i graphql?

2reactions

dotansimhacommented, Feb 14, 2019

@reconbot graphql is defined as devDependency and as peerDependency. We don’t want to force a specific version of graphql because it might result in multiple copies of graphql (and that’s not a good thing, because it will produce Also ensure that there are not multiple versions of GraphQL installed in your node_modules directory. errors).