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bug: global installation via pnpm cannot find modules

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Choose one: 🐛 bug report

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

No babel configuration, it’s my first install and I just wanted to try it out.

🤔 Expected Behavior

Running parcel index.html should start the live server.

😯 Current Behavior

Build fails with an error about missing modules. Running pnpm install -g posthtml-parser fixed the first one, but then it complains about posthtml-render.

🚨  Cannot find module 'posthtml-parser'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:489:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:517:17)
    at require (/home/vortex/.nvm/versions/node/v8.3.0/pnpm-global/1/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/v8-compile-cache/1.1.0/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:159:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vortex/.nvm/versions/node/v8.3.0/pnpm-global/1/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/parcel-bundler/1.4.0/node_modules/parcel-bundler/src/assets/HTMLAsset.js:2:15)
    at Module._compile (/home/vortex/.nvm/versions/node/v8.3.0/pnpm-global/1/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/v8-compile-cache/1.1.0/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:178:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:584:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:507:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:470:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:462:3)

💁 Possible Solution

it seems this is as a result of pnpm not flattening dependencies.

🔦 Context

💻 Code Sample

🌍 Your Environment

Software	Version(s)
Parcel	1.4.0
Node	8…3.0
pnpm	1.25.1
Operating System	Peppermint 8 Linux

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

bmacnaughtoncommented, Aug 20, 2020

@yoanthiebault - it’s the same reason i’m seeing an error when tap/bin/jack.js attempt to load treport/types on line 8. (tap v14.10.8). treport/types is not declared as a dependency in package.json.

1reaction

jsumnerscommented, Feb 13, 2018

Having the same issue. Modules that are direct dependencies should be listed as so in the package.json.

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