Package Node-Red project

[tkrzyford]

I'm attempting to run pkg on an express project that contains Node-Red, but when I attempt to run the exe it throws the error "Node-RED not built". Everything runs fine when done locally.

[iba-jsykes]

To anyone else looking at using this for node-red, you'll have to do as the readme says and change some require paths to get it to work properly, the error above is more than likely caused by the checkBuild method which cant find red.min.js .

[aurelhann]

You need to build and set correctly the assets of pkg...

[spatel626]

Does anyone have a working package.json file with the correct assets and scripts of pkg for node-red?

I am getting the same "Node-RED not built" error when running the exe

[tkrzyford]

I ended up including the entire node-red* directories and that solved the issue. Not the most efficient practice, but it worked.

[spatel626]

oh I see. I tried that too but it wouldn't work for me.

Did you clone the repo from Github or did you install via npm install node-red?

I cloned my project to C:\xampp\htdocs\node-red and I am trying to run pkg from there. I also installed node-red via npm as well but that created a different folder structure without red.js inside C:\Users\USER\.node-red

I noticed that grunt build is used in the package.json when cloning from Git but installing via npm doesn't have any build option included in there.

Would you mind sharing your package.json so I can see how you got it working?

Here is what my package.json currently looks like:

{
  "name": "node-red",
  "version": "0.19.1",
  "description": "A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things",
  "homepage": "http://nodered.org",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/node-red/node-red.git"
  },
  "main": "red/red.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node red.js",
    "test": "grunt",
    "build": "grunt build"
  },
  "pkg": {
    "scripts": [
      "/red/**/*.js"
    ],
    "targets": [
      "node8"
    ]
  },
  "bin": {
    "node-red": "./red.js",
    "node-red-pi": "bin/node-red-pi"
  },
  "contributors": [
    {
      "name": "Nick O'Leary"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dave Conway-Jones"
    }
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "editor",
    "messaging",
    "iot",
    "flow"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "ajv": "6.5.2",
    "basic-auth": "2.0.0",
    "bcryptjs": "2.4.3",
    "body-parser": "1.18.3",
    "cheerio": "0.22.0",
    "clone": "2.1.2",
    "cookie": "0.3.1",
    "cookie-parser": "1.4.3",
    "cors": "2.8.4",
    "cron": "1.3.0",
    "denque": "1.3.0",
    "express": "4.16.3",
    "express-session": "1.15.6",
    "fs-extra": "5.0.0",
    "fs.notify": "0.0.4",
    "hash-sum": "1.0.2",
    "i18next": "11.6.0",
    "is-utf8": "0.2.1",
    "js-yaml": "3.12.0",
    "json-stringify-safe": "5.0.1",
    "jsonata": "1.5.4",
    "media-typer": "0.3.0",
    "memorystore": "1.6.0",
    "mqtt": "2.18.3",
    "multer": "1.3.1",
    "mustache": "2.3.1",
    "node-red-node-email": "0.1.*",
    "node-red-node-feedparser": "^0.1.12",
    "node-red-node-rbe": "0.2.*",
    "node-red-node-twitter": "^1.1.0",
    "nopt": "4.0.1",
    "oauth2orize": "1.11.0",
    "on-headers": "1.0.1",
    "passport": "0.4.0",
    "passport-http-bearer": "1.0.1",
    "passport-oauth2-client-password": "0.1.2",
    "raw-body": "2.3.3",
    "request": "2.88.0",
    "semver": "5.5.0",
    "sentiment": "2.1.0",
    "uglify-js": "3.4.7",
    "when": "3.7.8",
    "ws": "1.1.5",
    "xml2js": "0.4.19"
  },
  "optionalDependencies": {
    "bcrypt": "~2.0.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "chromedriver": "^2.41.0",
    "grunt": "~1.0.3",
    "grunt-chmod": "~1.1.1",
    "grunt-cli": "~1.2.0",
    "grunt-concurrent": "~2.3.1",
    "grunt-contrib-clean": "~1.1.0",
    "grunt-contrib-compress": "~1.4.0",
    "grunt-contrib-concat": "~1.0.1",
    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~1.0.0",
    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~1.1.0",
    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~3.4.0",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~1.1.0",
    "grunt-jsonlint": "~1.1.0",
    "grunt-mocha-istanbul": "5.0.2",
    "grunt-nodemon": "~0.4.2",
    "grunt-sass": "~2.0.0",
    "grunt-simple-mocha": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-webdriver": "^2.0.3",
    "http-proxy": "^1.16.2",
    "istanbul": "0.4.5",
    "mocha": "^5.2.0",
    "should": "^8.4.0",
    "sinon": "1.17.7",
    "stoppable": "^1.0.6",
    "supertest": "3.1.0",
    "wdio-chromedriver-service": "^0.1.3",
    "wdio-mocha-framework": "^0.6.2",
    "wdio-spec-reporter": "^0.1.5",
    "webdriverio": "^4.13.1",
    "node-red-node-test-helper": "^0.1.7"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=4"
  }
}

[dheerajaggarwal]

I have faced the same issue when using the js-yaml dependency in my project. More specifically js-yaml uses the esprima dependency that was causing the issue.

I am not using the Node-Red project. But I found the same dependency js-yaml over here as well so I thought to share this information.