Error: Cannot find module 'connect'

Question

It appears that this simple app can\'t find the \'connect\' module after I just installed it in the file directory.

var connect = require (\'connec         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem for express-http-proxy and the solution was to install the package with npm. At first I installed globally (-g) and it works. On another installation I had to use "--save-dev".

$ gulp
module.js:338
    throw err;
      ^
Error: Cannot find module 'express-http-proxy'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)
at Object. (/var/opt/jet/workspace/node-js-project/lib/authorization-to-context-header.js:1:75)
at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)

installing the package

$ npm install express-http-proxy -g
express-http-proxy@0.6.0 /opt/jet/nodejs/node-js/lib/node_modules/express-http-proxy
âââ type-is@1.6.6 (media-typer@0.3.0, mime-types@2.1.4)
âââ raw-body@1.3.4 (bytes@1.0.0, iconv-lite@0.4.8)

or if the "-g" is not enough

$ npm install express-http-proxy --save-dev  

gulp works

$ gulp
[16:49:17] Using gulpfile /var/opt/workspace/node-js-project/gulpfile.js
[16:49:17] Starting 'dev'...
[16:49:17] Starting 'clean'...
[16:49:17] Finished 'dev' after 9.18 ms
[16:49:17] Starting 'default'...
[16:49:17] Finished 'default' after 10 μs
[16:49:17] Finished 'clean' after 11 ms
[16:49:17] Starting 'build'...
[16:49:17] Starting 'clean'...
[16:49:17] Finished 'clean' after 2.13 ms
[16:49:17] Starting 'styles'...
[16:49:17] Finished 'styles' after 813 ms
...