How to start it?

[skyiea]

Can't manage to make it work.
Both launch_development & launch_production & npm start give me next error:

Error: Cannot find module 'mongodb'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/index.js:14:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)

Manually installing npm i mongodb fixes this issue, but generates next:

/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:33
  var skinClassName = 'Skin' + NativeClass.name;
                                          ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
    at makeSkinClass (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:33:43)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/grid.js:6:35)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/db.js:22:33)

After reading this thread I've downgraded mongoskin package to 1.3.20, and finally get:

> node app.js

Failed to load c++ bson extension, using pure JS version
DEVELOPMENT MODE
Express HTTP server listening on port 3000

Opening localhost:3000 gives me page's initial state (header & button to add new todo). But one resource is loading very long - GET /js/App.js (I'm thinking that's because on each request NodeJS is rebuilding it with Browserify). After 12s it is finally loaded, and an error in browser-console appear:

App.js:294 Uncaught TypeError: syncItCallbackToPromise(...).then(...).done is not a function
    at Object.frontApp [as front] (App.js:294)
    at (index):1

I've managed to avoid this error replacing done with then.
Then I clicked "Start new Todo", which was making another GET request to localhost, failing after 1 minute with an exception in the server console:

/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongodb/mongo_client.js:378
          throw err
          ^

Error: SyncIt: MongoDB: Index:
    at /Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/syncit-server/ServerPersist/Mongodb.js:48:11
    at onError (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:27:7)
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:85:15)
    at EventEmitter.g (events.js:291:16)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at /Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/utils.js:134:27
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/mongoskin/lib/collection.js:50:22)
    at EventEmitter.g (events.js:291:16)
    at emitTwo (events.js:111:20)

That was dead-end for me.

Any tip how to make it work?

[forbesmyester]

Hi,

I think what has happened is that MongoSkin used to bring in MongoDB with the correct version but now it does not, though I am not at all sure (have not done a proper investigation).

Anyway doing a npm i mongodb@1.4 will fix it.

I'll have a look at upgrading this project to newer libraries and MongoDB... Database access is pretty abstracted away and you can even make it use an in-memory database by just setting an environmental variable.

Anyway that should get you going.

Thanks for the bug report.

[skyiea]

npm i mongodb@1.4 generates another error:

{ Error: Cannot find module '../build/Release/bson'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/bson/ext/index.js:15:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3) code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' }

Anyway thanks for your response. Would be awesome to see updated version of this project.
I've found another bootstrap project syncit-playground, will try to start from there.

[forbesmyester]

Hmm wired. From scratch (newly checked out) I just did a `npm install` and `npm install mongodb@1.4` and it was running 100% fine. MongoDB does some compilation, are you on a standard x86 CPU architecture? The other thing you can do is define the environmental variable `DATABASE__TYPE` , perhaps in config_rc see around line 18 of app.js. I'll do a refresh or this to update dependencies in the next few days. Thanks On 25 Jul 2017 8:22 pm, "Serhii Muryhin" <notifications@github.com> wrote: npm i mongodb@1.4 generates another error: { Error: Cannot find module '../build/Release/bson' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25) at Module.require (module.js:497:17) at require (internal/module.js:20:19) at Object.<anonymous> (/Development/SyncItBootstrap/node_modules/bson/ext/index.js:15:10) at Module._compile (module.js:570:32) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10) at Module.load (module.js:487:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3) code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' } Anyway thanks for your response. Would be awesome to see updated version of this project. I've found another bootstrap project syncit-playground, will try to start from there. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADT1sx-j4Hz7fe2pNEuHohNjRwogARDJks5sRkB2gaJpZM4OiLKn> .

[skyiea]

Hey.
Everything started to work after changing host in config.ini to localhost.

(OSX. x64 CPU)

[forbesmyester]

I suspect your Mongo is listening on the Mac equivelent of a UNIX socket whereas 127.0.0.1 forces it to use a TCP socket. I've set Mongo up using Docker for a long time and there is no UNIX socket binding for me... hence why I configured it for TCP....

I'm going to re-open this so I can remember to add something to to the docs so people know they might have to tweak the config setting.

Thanks again for the bug report.