I'm working on a electron app with gundb. After getting everything else working I did a npm install --save gun. It completed with this warn:
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.0.14
When I try to:
require('gun');
var endpoints;
var gun = Gun(endpoints);
I get a very long list of errors I can't make since of. They start with:
.../node_modules/fs doesn't exist
.../node_modules/fs.webpack.js doesn't exist
.../node_modules/fs.web.js doesn't exist
.../node_modules/fs.js doesn't exist
.../node_modules/fs.json doesn't exist
And the following cannot resolve:
@ ./~/gun/lib/file.js 14:10-23
@ ./~/gun/lib/wsp.js 61:39-52
@ ./~/ws/lib/WebSocketServer.js 15:10-2
@ ./~/options/lib/options.js 6:9-2
@ ./~/aws-sdk/lib/api_loader.js 1:9-22
@ ./~/aws-sdk/lib/services.js 1:9-22
I'm on Linux. Is fsevent a dependency of gun npm?
UPDATE
To remove as many other variables as possible, I reduced my package.json file down to only electron....eliminating possible issues with webpack, and other dependencies. I also deleted my node_modules and did a fresh npm install & npm install gun.
That revealed a more useful error:
Uncaught ReferenceError: Gun is not defined gun.js:1470
Which pointed to:
if(typeof window !== "undefined"){ Gun.request = request }
if(typeof module !== "undefined" && module.exports){ module.exports.request = request }
That was a gun bug and the gun team corrected it this morning. After the error was corrected and I updated gun in my project, I was still left with problems bundling with webpack:
WARNING in ./~/ws/lib/BufferUtil.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'bufferutil' in /node_modules/ws/lib
@ ./~/ws/lib/BufferUtil.js 10:19-40
WARNING in ./~/ws/lib/Validation.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'utf-8-validate' in /node_modules/ws/lib
@ ./~/ws/lib/Validation.js 10:19-44
WARNING in ./~/formidable/lib/incoming_form.js
Critical dependencies:
1:43-50 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
@ ./~/formidable/lib/incoming_form.js 1:43-50
WARNING in ./~/formidable/lib/file.js
Critical dependencies:
1:43-50 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
@ ./~/formidable/lib/file.js 1:43-50
WARNING in ./~/formidable/lib/json_parser.js
Critical dependencies:
1:43-50 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
@ ./~/formidable/lib/json_parser.js 1:43-50
WARNING in ./~/formidable/lib/querystring_parser.js
Critical dependencies:
1:43-50 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
@ ./~/formidable/lib/querystring_parser.js 1:43-50
WARNING in ./~/aws-sdk/lib/util.js
Critical dependencies:
40:30-45 the request of a dependency is an expression
43:11-53 the request of a dependency is an expression
@ ./~/aws-sdk/lib/util.js 40:30-45 43:11-53
WARNING in ./~/aws-sdk/lib/api_loader.js
Critical dependencies:
13:15-59 the request of a dependency is an expression
104:12-46 the request of a dependency is an expression
108:21-58 the request of a dependency is an expression
114:18-52 the request of a dependency is an expression
@ ./~/aws-sdk/lib/api_loader.js 13:15-59 104:12-46 108:21-58 114:18-52
I had to add the following to my webpack.config.js to use gun with webpack:
var webpack = require('webpack');
module.exports = {
devtool: "source-map",
target: "node",
....
module: {
noParse: [/aws-sdk/],
....
plugins: [
new webpack.DefinePlugin({ "global.GENTLY": false })
]
....
At that point everything was working even though I still had the following errors in bash:
WARNING in ./~/ws/lib/BufferUtil.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'bufferutil' in /node_modules/ws/lib
@ ./~/ws/lib/BufferUtil.js 10:19-40
WARNING in ./~/ws/lib/Validation.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'utf-8-validate' in /node_modules/ws/lib
@ ./~/ws/lib/Validation.js 10:19-44