Cannot run emulator with tns as devDependency

[theworkflow]

I'm trying to setup the dev environment for other developers so that they don't have to install modules globally. I am able to install nativescript as a dev dependency and use npm scripts to use the local binary. Building the ios app works fine. I'm not able to run the emulator unfortunately. Here's an output of the logs

** BUILD SUCCEEDED **

Revert typescript version to beta
Project successfully built
Using  /Users/Jeremiah/Projects/worklife/mobile-app/AppName/platforms/ios/build/emulator/AppName.app
Starting iOS Simulator
Feb 16 14:16:22 Jeremiahs-MacBook-Pro AppName[72734]: 1   0x73d76 -[TNSRuntime executeModule:]

Feb 16 14:16:22 Jeremiahs-MacBook-Pro AppNAme[72734]: 2   0x3541e main
Feb 16 14:16:22 Jeremiahs-MacBook-Pro AppNAme[72734]: 3   0x39dea21 start
Feb 16 14:16:22 Jeremiahs-MacBook-Pro AppName[72734]: 4   0x1
Feb 16 14:16:22 Jeremiahs-MacBook-Pro AppName[72734]: undefined: JS ERROR Error: Failed to find module 'stream' relative to 'file:///app/tns_modules/xml/lib/xml.js'. Computed path: 'app/tns_modules/stream.js'.
Feb 16 14:16:22 Jeremiahs-MacBook-Pro com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDevice.7EC1FE7F-61C4-494C-ABDD-7E6D32BCE45A.launchd_sim[71860] (UIKitApplication:com.progress.ios.AppName[0x60b5][72734]): Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11

[mikeres0]

Building the app would work okay, because the error is occurring when you run the app. It can't find the module 'stream', so where you're requiring modules like so var * = require("*") there could be a typo, or that module hasn't be included in your project.

[PeterStaev]

I can confirm this is an issue and not related to the requiring of modules in user code. If i install latest CLI as dev dependency and try to deploy the app to simulator (i've tested with VS android simulator) it does not work. Then if you remove the dev dependency and deploy with the tns command installed globally it works ok.

[theworkflow]

Will there be some type of fix for this?

[dtopuzov]

@HarlanJ, @PeterStaev can you please confirm that this issues is still valid and provide exact steps to reproduce.

Just tested with {N} 2.0.1 and following steps:

npm init (and populate the wizard)
npm install --save-dev nativescript
node_modules/.bin/tns create TestApp
node_modules/.bin/tns run ios --emulator --path TestApp

It works.

[PeterStaev]

Actually I spoke too soon. Here is the scenario i'm testing:

1. I have a sample app created with the global tns
2. In the folder of the app I run npm install nativescript --save-dev
3. In the folder of the app I run node_modules\.bin\tns deploy android. The build completes successful but when run on android the app throws the error:
   
   I opened the package.json of the app and seems the install of nativescript also put the tns-core-modules in the devDependencies section (although it was already present in the dependencies section before starting with step 2). I manually removed them from there, deleted the platforms folder and did again step 3 above. Again build completes w/o problems but when deployed the following error pops up:
   

[dtopuzov]

Currently this is not supported scenario.