While trying to run I get this error: path.exists is now called `fs.exists`

[wavesailor]

While trying to run howtonode.org, I get this error:

path.exists is now called `fs.exists`

I'm new to node.js but I did a successful npm install. I'm running node.js v0.10.15 on ubuntu 12.04

Any ideas?

PS. the README.markdown has conflicting methods to run the server.

[nrstott]

Seems pretty straight-forward. path.exists has been changed to fs.exists
and that needs to be updated.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:18 AM, wavesailor notifications@github.comwrote:

While trying to run howtonode.org, I get this error:

path.exists is now called fs.exists

I'm new to node.js but I did a successful npm install. I'm running node.js
v0.10.15 on ubuntu 12.04

Any ideas?

PS. the README.markdown has conflicting methods to run the server.

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[wavesailor]

Hmmm ... okay so how do I fix it? I search through all the code and modules for path.exists is now called fs.exists`` but could not find anything.
The complete error messages are as follows:

$nodserver/server.js
path.exists is now called `fs.exists`.

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)
$

With regards to running the code, does it have to reside in a specific directory and does it need a particular .host entry or environment variable set?

[nrstott]

Just find path.exists and replace it with fs.exists

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:22 AM, wavesailor notifications@github.comwrote:

Hmmm ... okay so how do I fix it? I search through all the code and
modules for path.exists is now called fs.exists but could not find
anything.
The complete error messages are as follows:

$nodserver/server.js
path.exists is now called fs.exists.

events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: spawn ENOENT
at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)
$

With regards to running the code, does it have to reside in a specific
directory and does it need a particular .host entry or environment variable
set?

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[wavesailor]

Okay I replaced all the occurrences of path.exists with fs.exists but I'm still getting an error.

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

I searched through all the code for throw er; but could not find any ???

[nrstott]

Its coming from events.js in node, that's why you're not finding it.
Somewhere there is a call to spawn that can not find the file it is trying
to run. That's what the ENOENT means.

As the stack trace ends in node.js code, I am not sure where your error is
coming from.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:28 AM, wavesailor notifications@github.comwrote:

Okay I replaced all the occurrences of path.exists with fs.exists but I'm
still getting an error.

events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: spawn ENOENT
at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

I searched through all the code for throw er; but could not find any ???

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[wavesailor]

Okay ... a little embarrassing - I didn't realise that howtonode.org, which uses the wheat module needed git to be installed :-( I'm guessing that was the spawn error. I'm running this on a new ubuntu machine

Are there any other dependencies I need as I now get further but have run into this error:

/home/wavesailor/howtonode.org-master/node_modules/wheat/node_modules/git-fs/lib/git-fs.js:208
      callback(err);
      ^
TypeError: undefined is not a function
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/wavesailor/howtonode.org-master/node_modules/wheat/node_modules/git-fs/lib/git-fs.js:208:7)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:948:11)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at Pipe.close (net.js:466:12)

[b2k]

I'm angry. I was just reading an article on OReiley called "what is node.js". It's first exercise is to read a file from disk. So I copied the code, and tried to run the webserver "node nodeFileServer.js". I get deprecation warnings and errors: "sys is deprecated. Use util instead" and "path.exists" is not a function.

A resulting search landed me here, were I see further issues with deprecated code, where not even the recommended replacements work. Furthermore, I find out that fs.exists is also deprecated and I'm supposed to use fs.stat, but only if I'm not checking for the existance of a file!

What's a noob supposed to do!!???

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