Clearer documentation about setting node environment for sublime to what prettier was installed with

[mlunoe]

After installing prettier and following the instructions I was hitting this issue:

/Users/ml/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.4/lib/node_modules/prettier/bin/prettier.js:5
const fs = require("fs");
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:935:3

I wasn't sure what the problem was. After some digging, I found that I needed to have my node environment for sublime (for me project specific) as prettier was installed with. Setting this in my .sublime-project file solved it for me:

  "settings": {
    "js_prettier": {
      "prettier_cli_path": "/Users/ml/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.4/bin/prettier",
      "node_path": "/Users/ml/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.4/bin/node"
    }
  }

This was not super obvious to me. Could this be documented clearer somewhere?

Related issue: prettier/prettier#99 (comment)

[mlunoe]

The problem was that my environment (Sublime) was running a different version of node than what I used to install prettier with (and use in my project). So I had to point to sublime to use the same version of Node for its environment as I am using for prettier for it to work.

[mlunoe]

Related issue: #5

[mlunoe]

@jonlabelle, why are you closing this?

[jonlabelle]

So I had to point to sublime to use the same version of Node for its environment as I am using for prettier for it to work.

Please contribute the documentation you feel is approprate by making a pull request.

Thanks.

[mlunoe]

PR created

[jonlabelle]

Done.

[lock]

This thread has been automatically locked since there has not been any recent activity after it was closed. Please open a new issue for related bugs.

[jonlabelle]

See solution.