No default CodiMD server url set

[salim-b]

I've installed codimd-cli from npm using

npm install --global @hackmd/codimd-cli

and then tried to display the help using

codimd-cli help

which resulted in the following error:

/home/salim/.by_pkg_mngr/npm/lib/node_modules/@hackmd/codimd-cli/lib/config.js:32
    throw new Error(`
    ^

Error: 

Please specify CodiMD server url either in /home/salim/.codimd/config.json or by environment varaible.

You can learn how to config codimd-cli on https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd-cli


    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/salim/.by_pkg_mngr/npm/lib/node_modules/@hackmd/codimd-cli/lib/config.js:32:11)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1200:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1220:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1049:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:937:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1089:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:73:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/salim/.by_pkg_mngr/npm/lib/node_modules/@hackmd/codimd-cli/lib/api.js:9:42)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1200:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1220:10)

The README states:

hackmd-cli operates on official HackMD instance (hackmd.io) by default.

But this is obviously not the case for the npm package. Explicitly setting the serverUrl key (to anything) in ~/.codimd/config.json eliminates the error message.

(Besides, there's a typo in the error message above: varaible)

---

I'm using Node.js 14 on Ubuntu 20.04. npm version gives me

{
  npm: '6.14.5',
  ares: '1.16.0',
  brotli: '1.0.7',
  cldr: '37.0',
  icu: '67.1',
  llhttp: '2.0.4',
  modules: '83',
  napi: '6',
  nghttp2: '1.41.0',
  node: '14.4.0',
  openssl: '1.1.1g',
  tz: '2019c',
  unicode: '13.0',
  uv: '1.37.0',
  v8: '8.1.307.31-node.33',
  zlib: '1.2.11'
}

[salim-b]

Scratch that! @Yukaii helped me realize I've had been using a deprecated version of the CLI. With the npm package hackmd/hackmd-cli everything works as supposed. 🎉