yo backbone [appname] no longer scaffolds a backbone project

[qbunt]

Example attempt below:

test⇒ yo backbone myapp
   invoke   mocha:app
   create test/bower.json

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    |       |
    |--(o)--|   .--------------------------.
   `---------´  |    Welcome to Yeoman,    |
    ( _´U`_ )   |   ladies and gentlemen!  |
    /___A___\   '__________________________'
     |  ~  |
   __'.___.'__
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Out of the box I include HTML5 Boilerplate, jQuery, Backbone.js and Modernizr.
[?] What more would you like? (Press <space> to select)
❯⬢ Twitter Bootstrap for Sass
 ⬡ Use CoffeeScript
 ⬡ Use RequireJs   create test/.bowerrc
   create test/spec/test.js
   create test/index.html

This also appears to stall after scaffolding the test directory, and stops scaffolding entirely, so this generator appears to no longer scaffold effectively at all.

This is on Yeoman v1.2.0, Node v0.10.26. Let me know if you've got questions, happy to help out in any way.

[stefanray]

I have exactly the same problem after installing yeoman/generator-backbone on a new machine this evening!

[revathskumar]

Still failed to reproduce on Ubuntu. Are you guys on Mac?

[qbunt]

@revathskumar I am on OS X Mavericks 10.9.3, yes.

[stefanray]

I'm on ubuntu 14.04 node v0.10.29 yo v1.2.0

[CraigWarford]

I'm on Windows 7, tried both in a Git bash and node.js command window. Default "yo backbone" seems to skip the options and start installation (but really, it's waiting on the options selection), and continuing with a default installation puts everything (except .yo-rc.json) into the "test" folder. It's definitely broken, if a default install does that...

[sethgho]

Having similar problems here. OSX 10.9.3 node 0.10.28 yo 1.2.0 generator-backbone 0.3.0

Reverting generator-backbone to 0.2.8 seems to be generating a complete app.

[revathskumar]

Now I am able to reproduce the issue. Working on the fix.

[revathskumar]

Please try to install generator-mocha from github. npm install -g yeoman/generator-mocha

Lemme know whether it solves the issue.

[sethgho]

Yep. It's working for me now. :thumbsup:

[revathskumar]

@sethgho Whether it installs the bower and npm modules ?

[qbunt]

@revathskumar I just ran your suggestion npm install -g yeoman/generator-mocha and that did not fix the issue for me. I do get the following error message once the Mocha generator's been installed.

test|⇒ yo backbone myapp
Error backbone myapp 

You don't seem to have a generator with the name mocha:app installed.
You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name].
To see the 35 registered generators run yo with the `--help` option.

It also looks like the generator is actually installed, just without the Mocha:app subgenerator installed

Backbone
  backbone:all
  backbone:app
  backbone:collection
  backbone:model
  backbone:router
  backbone:view

Backbone-mocha
  backbone-mocha:collection
  backbone-mocha:model
  backbone-mocha:router
  backbone-mocha:view

Let me know if you'd like me to try anything else, happy to help out.

[oakley808]

I'm getting the same results as @qbunt.

OSX 10.9.3 node 0.10.26 yo 1.2.0 generator-backbone 0.3.0

[0xbboyd]

I am also having this problem.

OSX 10.9.2 node 0.10.29 yo 1.2.0 generator-backbone 0.3.0

[revathskumar]

@qbunt It looks like the generator-mocha is not installed successfully.

@oakley808 @bboydGensler Did you guys tried npm install -g yeoman/generator-mocha

[anthonyray]

Installing the generator-mocha solves the issue, but it's required to issue : bower install & npm install manually ...

[troyericg]

Even with generator-mocha installed and a fresh install of the backbone generator, I'm still getting my options skipped and the installation of everything into that "test" folder.

[serv]

Having the same issue

OS X 10.9.3 node v0.10.29 npm 1.4.14 yo 1.2.0

[serv]

@revathskumar, your fix worked but like @anthonyray said, I needed to manually run

$ bower install 
$ npm install

It's a bit confusing that the generator fails silently after saying I'm all done. Running bower install & npm install for you to install the required dependencies. If this fails, try running the command yourself., so I didn't know if it failed or not.

[oakley808]

Hmm.... no luck here.

sudo npm install -g yeoman generator-mocha generator-backbone

then

$ yo backbone myapp
Error backbone myapp 

You don't seem to have a generator with the name mocha:app installed.
You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name].
To see the 15 registered generators run yo with the `--help` option.

[amiredry]

Having the same issue on Ubuntu 14.04.

npm install -g yeoman/generator-mocha

Fixed it but also had to run

bower install & npm install

to be able to use Grunt.

[calvinkhuang]

Ubuntu 14.04, npm 1.3.10~dfsg-1 yo 1.1.2 generator-mocha 0.1.3 generator-backbone 0.3.0 generator-backbone-mocha 0.0.3

$ yo backbone
Error backbone 

You don't seem to have a generator with the name mocha:app installed.
You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name].
To see the 26 registered generators run yo with the `--help` option.
$ yo --help
Usage: yo GENERATOR [args] [options]

General options:
  -h, --help     # Print generator's options and usage
  -f, --force    # Overwrite files that already exist

Please choose a generator below.

Angular
  angular:app
  angular:common
  angular:constant
  angular:controller
  angular:decorator
  angular:directive
  angular:factory
  angular:filter
  angular:main
  angular:provider
  angular:route
  angular:service
  angular:value
  angular:view

Backbone
  backbone:all
  backbone:app
  backbone:collection
  backbone:model
  backbone:router
  backbone:view

Backbone-mocha
  backbone-mocha:collection
  backbone-mocha:model
  backbone-mocha:router
  backbone-mocha:view

Karma
  karma:app

Web-starter-kit
  web-starter-kit:app

Previously, I had yo backbone generating part of the app in a test folder (it would display the initial prompt twice, at first giving the chance to select my options, but later on always going to bower install immediately). However, now it won't even start the generator.

[TheBranchDriftCatalyst]

I am having similar problems as explained above. When i do the fix the yo generator ends before bower install & npm install is run. When i manually run those commands the modules are installed properly (or so it appears) however whenever i use the backbone:generators. The path is pointing to the ../myapp folder. So my views and routes and models are beign created in a folder such as ../public/* rather than ./public/views etc.

[robhuzzey]

I've had the same issues today. As a temporary fix I did npm install -g generator-backbone@0.2.8 to get me working again.

[qbunt]

@robhuzzey doing the same. No problems so far.

[cobookman]

Using OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 After I ran

npm install -g yeoman/generator
yo backbone
npm install && bower install

All the 'scafolding' seems to be there.
But, running grunt test and/or grunt produces the following error: Warning: PhantomJS timed out, possibly due to a missing Mocha run() call. Use --force to continue.

[seyade]

I also get the same issue with jasmine as the test framework... I had to revert to generator-backbone@0.2.8 to make it work, and it's fine.

Is there gonna be a fix for version 3?

[revathskumar]

The generator-mocha 0.1.4 is released now. Can you guys please update the generator-mocha and let us know whether this issue persist.

[qbunt]

npm install -g yeoman/generator-mocha @revathskumar this does appear to fix the issue of the entire app not scaffolding. It appears that npm install and bower install are not being called automatically, maybe there's something else at work here?

[heldrida]

@revathskumar I also tested and didn't worked for me. Running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[evelynriossf]

Still not working for me. Using OS X Mavericks 10.9.4

Ran: npm install -g yeoman/generator-backbone npm install -g yeoman/generator-mocha

Test 1: yo backbone yeomantest1 --template-framework=handlebars --test-framework=jasmine puts everything except .yo-rc.json into the test folder.

Test 2: yo backbone yeomantest2 --template-framework=handlebars puts everything in the correct place. However, running grunt test produces the following error: Warning: PhantomJS timed out, possibly due to a missing Mocha run() call. Use --force to continue.

Test3: Reverted to npm install -g generator-backbone@0.2.8. Ran bower install and npm install manually. Scaffold works correctly & grunt test runs successfully.

[benjamingsmith]

Thank you, @evelynriossf! "npm install -g generator-backbone@0.2.8" worked for me.

[kirach]

Any chance this will be fixed in the near future?

[neoblackcap]

@evelynriossf ,thanks. the generator-backbone@0.2.8 work well.

[gamaralf]

Same problem here. Using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, behind a corporate proxy.

If I run yo backbone on an empty directory, I only get the directory "test" and .yo-rc.json. :(

Other generators (like webapp) work fine.

Versions:

$ yo -v
1.2.1
$ npm -v
1.4.21
$ bower -v
1.3.9

[diegocasmo]

Thank you, @evelynriossf! That worked for me as well.

[mathieubellon]

@evelynriossf that did work for us too, thanks !!

[revathskumar]

Please update the backbone generator to 0.3.1 and lemme know if this issue persists?

[qbunt]

@revathskumar looks like 0.3.1 is back to scaffolding an app, though it's not running the npm install && bower install as it mentions in the output. Should I open a new issue for that, as it appears that this issue is fixed?

[qbunt]

Actually, looks like some of the sub-generators are referencing classes that aren't there. I don't think that's how 0.2.8 ran, investigating further.

Update: Nope, I was wrong, 0.2.8 does the same.

[revathskumar]

@qbunt Thanks for quick reply, The bower and npm installation issue is not directly related to backbone generator I already fixed it in mocha generator (yeoman/generator-mocha#21). will get fixed by next release of mocha generator

[revathskumar]

some of the sub-generators are referencing classes that aren't there

Which sub-generator? What classes? Can you open a new issue regarding this?

[qbunt]

@revathskumar cheers and thanks for the fix and info man.

[qbunt]

the sub-generators are scaffolding everything they were in 0.2.8 (possibly without the test specs) let me run this for a while and open a new issue if needed. Thanks again @revathskumar

[jeffwesson]

:+1: to @revathskumar for npm install -g yeoman/generator-mocha