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Unable to require anything in CoffeeScript or LiveScript

See original GitHub issue

The require functionality seems completely broken as far as I can tell with at least these two languages, and possibly more. Here’s the error screens I’m getting:

CoffeeScript

[23:20:01] Failed to load external module coffee-script/register

/home/{user}/dev-projects/js/sandbox/gulpfile.coffee:1
function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { fs = require 'fs'
                                                                          ^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected string
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Liftoff.handleArguments (/usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js:108:3)
    at Liftoff.launch (/usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/liftoff/index.js:140:6)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js:59:5)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)

LiveScript

(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { require! {
                                                                     ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token !
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Liftoff.handleArguments (/usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js:108:3)
    at Liftoff.launch (/usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/liftoff/index.js:140:6)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js:59:5)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)

JS does not have this issue, but it seems like a bug that both CoffeeScript and LiveScript should fail in exactly the same spot (namely the beginning require phase).

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:12 (3 by maintainers)

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3reactions

yocontracommented, Aug 25, 2014

Your log:

[23:20:01] Failed to load external module coffee-script/register

You need to install coffee-script before you can use coffee-script. npm install coffee-script

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artelsecommented, Oct 29, 2016

Sorry about reopening here, but I got the same error: Requiring external module coffee-script/register. I tried above suggestions, but no dice. Coffee-script is local in node_modules and also globally installed and removed and reinstalled the node_modules. gulp@3.9.1 and node@6.6.0.

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