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npm start does not work if username contains spaces #5369

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bsclifton opened this issue Nov 3, 2016 · 0 comments
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npm start does not work if username contains spaces #5369

bsclifton opened this issue Nov 3, 2016 · 0 comments

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bsclifton commented Nov 3, 2016

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Describe the issue you encountered:
If your username contains a space and you've got Brave cloned to your documents directory, running npm start does not work.

Expected behavior:
It should work

  • Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?):
    Windows

  • Brave Version:
    HEAD of master (0.12.8)

  • Steps to reproduce:

    1. Be on Windows 10; create a user account "Dell Optiplex" and login as that account
    2. Setup your dev environment for this user
    3. clone browser-laptop to somewhere under My Documents (ex: c:\users\dell optiplex\documents\brave)
    4. run npm install to get deps setup
    5. in one window, runnpm run watch
    6. in another window, run npm start
    7. notice you get the error cannot find module C:\Users\Dell

cc: @jkup

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@bsclifton bsclifton added this to the Triage Backlog milestone Nov 27, 2017
@NejcZdovc NejcZdovc added the help wanted The PR/issue opener needs help to complete/report the task. label May 7, 2018
@bsclifton bsclifton added stale and removed bug/good-first-bug help wanted The PR/issue opener needs help to complete/report the task. labels Aug 6, 2018
@bsclifton bsclifton removed this from the Triage Backlog milestone Aug 6, 2018
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