Error: Cannot find module 'babelify'… (it can't find any installed module)

[Oli4242]

I'm not sure if it is a bug or if I'm missing something but this:

let javascript = new Watchify('src', {
  browserify: {
    entries: ['main.js'],
    debug: true
  },
  outputFile: 'game.js',
  init(b) {
    b.transform('babelify', {
      presets: ['es2015', 'es2016'],
    })
  }
})

Causes the following error:

events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: Cannot find module 'babelify' from '/tmp/broccoli-513366CB9iSXvlnzg/cache-2-watchify'
    at /tmp/phaser-test/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:46:17
    at process (/tmp/phaser-test/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:173:43)
    at ondir (/tmp/phaser-test/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:188:17)
    at load (/tmp/phaser-test/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:69:43)
    at onex (/tmp/phaser-test/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:92:31)
    at /tmp/phaser-test/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:22:47
    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)

I need to manually require babelify and the presets but then it wont find any node module loaded by my source files.

I'm using node v6.9.1, npm 3.10.8 and Broccoli 1.1.0

[stefanpenner]

Currently this broccoli-plugin is not compatible with broccoli 1.x. (dowgrading to an ealier plugin may address) Or seeing of broccoli 1.x has a configurable tmpdir (may be just as simple as setting the posix tmp dir environment variable)

Why?

I believe it to be the following:

• Broccoli 1.x moved the tmp directory to the system tmp directory
• This plugin relied on a trick, where running browserify in the /tmp/... would resolve modules from <project>/node_modules because that is just how the node_resolution works.

Potential steps on to address this:

• configure browserify to look in the right place (unfortunately, last time I tried this i ran into browserify bugs where some scenarios did not resolve correctly due to a browserify issue) This needs re-investgation
• make it so broccoli-watchify symlinks/junctions the right node_module directory into the location where we run browserify.

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I would love to address this, but this week is looking quite busy :(. If no-one gets to this, I will eventually get to it. Although it most likely wont be a prompt fix.

[Oli4242]

I'm not really used to nodejs so I can't help… I downgraded to broccoli 0.16.9 and it worked. Thanks :)

[greghuc]

Just to say I also ran into this problem on updating to broccoli 1.1, and also downgraded to 0.16.9.

[and2]

What worked for me was adding the absolute path to <project>/node_modules into browserify paths right after setting basedir. Not sure if there are still scenarios where browserify will fail.

this.options.browserify.paths = [ path.join(__dirname, '..') ]

[mtimofiiv]

I am also encountering this problem at the moment.

Error: Cannot find module 'reactify' from '/var/folders/hq/11q9dqkn6hn2xf14sx38s1rc0000gn/T/broccoli-70379Pylq7HZ0yROy/cache-1-watchify'
    at /Users/fiiv/dev/pinmark/frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:48:31
    at processDirs (/Users/fiiv/dev/pinmark/frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:182:39)
    at ondir (/Users/fiiv/dev/pinmark/frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:197:13)
    at load (/Users/fiiv/dev/pinmark/frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:80:43)
    at onex (/Users/fiiv/dev/pinmark/frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/async.js:105:17)
    at /Users/fiiv/dev/pinmark/frontend/node_module

Is there any way around this besides downgrading broccoli?