Cannot find module 'socket.io'

Hello,

I’m receiving the error Cannot find module socket.io when I try to start the mqtt panel even I installed socket.io via npm -g install socket.io

Any idea how to get rid of this error? Here you are the full error message:

module.js:472
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'socket.io'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/etc/mqtt-panel/server.js:8:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)

Thanks in Advance, Thomas

[otrab]

Hi @tringler I think you use bad the mqtt method

check this https://github.com/mqttjs/MQTT.js/blob/master/examples/client/simple-both.js

whit this I can run ./runner.sh

[falkTX]

The current change makes it work for me:

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index 4af2095..96838e7 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ var socket = require('socket.io');
 //var firmata = require('firmata');
 
 var mqttbroker = 'localhost';
-var mqttport = 1883;
+var mqttport = '1883';
 
 var io = socket.listen(3000);
-var mqttclient = mqtt.createClient(mqttport, mqttbroker);
+var mqttclient = mqtt.connect('tcp://' + mqttbroker + ':' + mqttport);
 
 // Subscribe to topic
 io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {