Cannot find module 'coffee-script'

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Trying to get a basic site set up with TowerJS as a test, but ran into this error when running the scaffold generator.

Macbook:app john$ tower generate scaffold Post title:string body:text belongsTo:user
{ [Error: Cannot find module 'coffee-script'] code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' }

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module '/Users/john/Sites/tower/app/app/config/shared/application'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
    at require (module.js:378:17)
    at Function.Tower.Application.Application.reopenClass.instance (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower-application/server/application.js:42:15)
    at _.extend.namespace (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower-support/shared/shared.js:218:30)
    at GeneratorScaffoldGenerator.Tower.GeneratorResources.buildApp (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower-generator/server/resources.js:273:66)
    at GeneratorScaffoldGenerator.Generator (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower-generator/server/generator.js:57:23)
    at new GeneratorScaffoldGenerator (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower-generator/server/generators/tower/scaffold/scaffoldGenerator.js:21:61)
    at Function.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tower/lib/tower-generator/server/generator.js:22:12)

Is coffee script installed (globally) on your box? What does "npm list -g coffee-script" returns? If it returns "empty" try installing it first with "npm install -g coffee-script" — Hector Correa, Oct 22 '12 at 13:38

score 58 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 08:32

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Had similar problem when using grunt, I've removed

node_modules

folder from my root folder and run

npm install

That fixed my problem

answered Sep 26 '13 at 08:32

Pawel Zareba

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+1. I really wish this didn't work for me, but it did. – Patrick M Feb 26 '14 at 20:59
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It worked because npm does not do transactional installs. When something goes wrong with an npm installation (I had git issues) npm will often create the directory and the package.json for packages that are not fully/properly installed and does not have any flag for marking a position in the tree as fully installed so it can't, and doesn't, automatically repair botched installs. – joshperry Aug 18 '15 at 19:07

score 31 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '13 at 03:27

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Update your package.json file

"coffee-script": "~1.6.3"

on "devDependencies" and update the npm again

npm update

the same issue fixed for me

answered Dec 10 '13 at 03:27

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score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 26 '14 at 17:34

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You need to check NODE_PATH variable against the location given by npm list -g coffee-script.
If empty, npm install -g coffee-script.

answered Apr 26 '14 at 17:34

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random-forest-cat · Answer 4 · 2019-02-20T01:53:46.333

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This did the trick for me

npm install --save-dev coffee-script

using node v0.10.31

edited Feb 20 '19 at 01:53

answered Nov 13 '14 at 22:15

random-forest-cat

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This loads coffee-script into devDependencies of package.json. Fixed the problem for me, thanks. – Dom Vinyard Jun 16 '16 at 08:41

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 07:23

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You need to check NODE_PATH variable and if it is empty then set it with instructions given here http://www.davidarno.org/2012/02/09/writing-a-node.js-module-in-coffeescript/

answered Apr 02 '13 at 07:23

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score 3 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

This is a question from 2012. Now it's nearly 2015, and in the meantime, there is now another, new approach for a differerent variation of the problem caused by breaking changes introduced into node and coffeescript.

For coffeescript > v1.7 you must now call

var coffee = require('coffee-script').register();

instead of

var coffee = require('coffee-script');

See this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/21585379 to this question: How to properly set up Coffeescript with Node.js

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 24 '14 at 07:55

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https://github.com/fgnass/node-dev#settings Note: If you want to use coffee-script < 1.7 you have to change the setting to {"coffee": "coffee-script"}.

so update your coffe-script or config your setting

answered Apr 24 '14 at 07:55

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Amirreza Mohammadi · Answer 8 · 2020-04-04T08:10:38.937

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Try installing the required packages separately like:

npm install coffee-script

after that it required one more package and hopefully it was the last one :D

edited Apr 04 '20 at 08:10

answered Jul 09 '18 at 13:11

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score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Dec 12 '18 at 08:24

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With 2 simple steps, I was able to fix this issue

npm cache clean
npm install

Hope this helps!

edited Dec 12 '18 at 08:24

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answered Dec 12 '18 at 07:43

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Cannot find module 'coffee-script'

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