Fresh node.js, Brunch, bower, and angular-brunch-seed produces TypeError: Arguments to path.join

[geeklisted]

Slightly experienced with node.js but new to Brunch and Bower. I followed the instructions in the angular-brunch-seed README to a tee. I grabbed the latest angular-brunch-seed from github, ran 'bower install', and then attempted to run server.sh.

I receive: error: [TypeError: Arguments to path.join must be strings]

However, I can't seem to figure out how to specify that I want a more verbose output. I.e. a file and line number would be nice.

This is the second attempt at running this skeleton app and second time encountering this error.

I've also ran 'bower update'. I haven't made any changes to config.coffee, package.json, or component.json.

More information below:

myapp]$ node --version v0.10.3

myapp]$ bower list bower discover Please wait while newer package versions are being discovered /web-workspace/myapp ├── angular#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) ├─┬ angular-cookies#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) │ └── angular#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) ├─┬ angular-mocks#1.0.4 │ └── angular#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) ├─┬ angular-resource#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) │ └── angular#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) ├─┬ angular-sanitize#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) │ └── angular#1.0.4 (1.0.6 now available) ├─┬ bootstrap#2.2.2 (2.3.1 now available) │ └── jquery#1.8.3 (1.9.1 now available) ├─┬ bootstrap-less-themes#73fcfda89ce8bc89254d50ac51864a8875285e39 │ └─┬ bootstrap#2.2.2 (2.3.1 now available) │ └── jquery#1.8.3 (1.9.1 now available) ├── console-polyfill#a51501a90a87d895a13b7316f3b3dc7920447e9a ├── font-awesome#3.0.2 └── jquery#1.8.3 (1.9.1 now available)

[kylefinley]

@geeklisted,

Sorry that you ran into problems. There was an issue GulinSS/bower-javascript-brunch with node > 0.10. It was resolved here:

GulinSS/bower-javascript-brunch/pull/2

We're just waiting for the updated version to be pushed to npm

In the mean time you should be able to modify your package.json file to use master. These line:

{
    // ...
    "bower-stylesheet-brunch": "git://github.com/GulinSS/bower-stylesheet-brunch/#master",
    "bower-javascript-brunch": "git://github.com/GulinSS/bower-javascript-brunch/#master",
    // ...
}

I've considered change these lines in angular-brunch-seed as a temporary fix, but I think this method breaks on Windows.

Please let me know it the fixes your issue.

[geeklisted]

Kyle - thanks for the super quick reply!

Unfortunately, I'm still encountering the error. Maybe I should install version 0.9 of node.js? Here is what I did:

1) Updated package.json in /myapp/package.json per instructions. 2) Ran > bower cache-clean 3) Ran > bower install 4) Ran brunch w. a) Same TypeError: Arguments to path.join must be strings 5) Ran ./scripts/server.sh b) Same TypeError: Arguments to path.join must be strings

Here is a larger snippet from package.json to show the updated values per your instructions: // ..... continued "auto-reload-brunch": ">= 1.5 < 1.6", "uglify-js-brunch": ">= 1.5 < 1.6", "clean-css-brunch": ">= 1.5 < 1.6", "bower-stylesheet-brunch": "git://github.com/GulinSS/bower-stylesheet-brunch/#master", "bower-javascript-brunch": "git://github.com/GulinSS/bower-javascript-brunch/#master", "bower-asserts-brunch": "*", "bower": "~0.8.5", // ... continued

Thanks for your help & patience.

[geeklisted]

Kyle - Hmm, I think I got it working. I re-ran ./scripts/init.sh and that did the trick. Would be interesting to know from your standpoint why that would have made a difference...does it perform an uninstall and re-install of underlying packages?

Thanks, I think I'm good now.

[kylefinley]

Excellent!

Yes, ./scripts/init.sh removes the node_modules directory and reinstalls them.

I'm glad that you got things working. I'm going to leave this issue open, until this is resolve.

[geeklisted]

Kyle - I did not experience this error on Mac OSX with Node.js version 0.8.16; just wanted to let you know.

Thanks.

[kylefinley]

Thanks @geeklisted,

Yes, I believe the issue is caused by changes made in Node 0.10.x. I push a commit d9b360a4b0fa212bedc4edf084ded2efc7cdfb0b that adds the suggested edits.

Thank you for reporting this. Please let me know if you have any other issues.