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Error: Cannot find module 'engine.io' - chat example

See original GitHub issue

I have just cloned socket.io repository and tried to run example (from within socket.io/examples/chat directory) by following instructions in readme file. Unfortunately after running node . i get this message:

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'engine.io'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pczyzewski/socket.io-master/lib/index.js:9:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    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)

node - v0.10.28

The same thing is happend on osx and freebsd.

I am quite new to node, so it`s possible that i have omitted something.

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:11 (2 by maintainers)

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kevin-roarkcommented, Jun 3, 2014

@pawski The issue is that the example app doesn’t actually depend on socket.io, but uses the relative parent. In the main socket.io git repo you also have to run npm install and that should fix the missing dependency error. Good luck! We can probably close this issue now.

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williaanlopescommented, Jan 14, 2017

This is very simple to solve. In your examples/chat folder, open the index.js file and change these lines of code.

before Var io = require ('../ ..') (server);

after Var io = require ('socket.io') (server);

And that’s it, it’s working! You do not need to run npm in the main folder.

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