"Cannot find module" when referencing a specific commit of a package

[YoranBrondsema]

I am trying to use ember-browserify with my own branch of mobiledoc-kit (see diff).

Importing the regular version published on NPM works fine. However, when I reference the specific commit on my own repository, I get the following error message when launching ember s:

$ ember s                                                                                                                     
Build Error (CoreObject)                                           

Cannot find module 'mobiledoc-kit' from '/home/yoran/Projects/YoranBrondsema/ember-browserify-bug-repro/tmp/stub_generator-output_path-mLymnepd.tmp'                                                                                                                           

Stack Trace and Error Report: /tmp/error.dump.8d73446add6ee7756f595ff508141b8e.log

Here is the error log: error.dump.8d73446add6ee7756f595ff508141b8e.log

I set up a reproduction repository. As you can see in the diff with a new Ember 2.18 installation, I just:

• install ember-browserify
• install mobiledoc-kit with a reference to the specific commit
• import Mobiledoc somewhere in the app

Any thoughts? Is it something in mobiledoc-kit? Or is it a limitation of browserify? Or something else?

Thanks!

[ef4]

I think this is because mobiledoc-kit has a prepublish step that actually builds everything. Packages that do that generally don't work if you try to point directly at a git repo.

If you run the prepublish step yourself and then commit the results onto some branch, you can point at that branch and then it will probably work.

[YoranBrondsema]

Ah man, spot on @ef4. Removing /dist from the .gitignore, building and committing did the job. Thanks a lot!