Error while running example

[knowbody]

Issue

• project assumes babel and browserify are installed globally

I cannot run: npm install simply because I don't have babel and browserify installed globally, and I think this would be most of the cases.

Possible solution

Quick hack would be to include graphiql.css and graphiql.min.js in the project, but that would increase the size of it.

Or just change the way the resources are being built.

[leebyron]

I'm a bit confused. Could you share the exact steps you followed to get this error? Babel and Browserify are included in the package dependencies, so installing the main project should work.

[gaearon]

I think this is the issue:

https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/blob/master/example/build.sh#L4

Shouldn't it be something like

./node_modules/.bin/babel server.js --optional runtime -o dist/server.js

?

[knowbody]

yeah, exactly that, thanks @gaearon

@leebyron yeah they are being installed but the when the examples try to install the dependencies, they install the local graphiql which has:

"prepublish": "npm run build"

which is run before the npm install is done and it runs the ./resource/build.sh which uses global babel

[leebyron]

Have you run "npm install" in the main project directory first?

The build script is not meant to be run directly, but only via npm scripts, which puts node_modules/.bin into $PATH

[gaearon]

I just tried running npm install in root and then in example folder and I don't have any problems.

[leebyron]

I'll add that step to the readme in examples

[knowbody]

cool, now works 👍

thanks @leebyron and @gaearon