Config just keeps finding ITS OWN base directory inside node_modules

[deni-zen]

I just installed config and started playing around with it. I have a directory structure like this:

/app
/node_modules
    /config <-- your module
 /resources
    /assets
        /js
            /myJsApp
                /config 
                    default.js <-- my config file
 package.json
 webpack.config.js

Now I've tried every which way of setting this:

NODE_CONFIG_DIR=./resources/assets/js/myJsApp/config but no matter what I do, whenever I run webpack, it just finds your config directory and craps out a bunch of errors. Where am I going wrong here?

[lorenwest]

When running an app that uses node-config, you have to be very aware of the current working directory.

The only way the config package will incorrectly use /node_modules/config is if the current working directory is /node_modules, OR if $NODE_CONFIG_DIR is explicitly pointing to it.

I've found that if you're unsure of your current working directory, using a relative path for $NODE_CONFIG_DIR doesn't help much. Try using a direct path for NODE_CONFIG_DIR, or try printing out process.cwd() before loading config so you know where it's running from.

As far as using config with webpack, I don't have any experience with it, so others may want to chime in if webpack changes directories while running, etc.

[deni-zen]

It's possible... check that... it's likely that I'm misuderstanding the errors I'm getting. I got the following errors when I ran webpack and assumed the library was trying to load itself as a config file...

ERROR in ./~/config/lib/config.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'hjson' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/config/lib
 @ ./~/config/lib/config.js 992:14-30

ERROR in ./~/config/lib/config.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'toml' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/config/lib
 @ ./~/config/lib/config.js 1000:13-28

ERROR in ./~/config/lib/config.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'cson' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/config/lib
 @ ./~/config/lib/config.js 1007:13-28

ERROR in ./~/config/lib/config.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'properties' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/config/lib
 @ ./~/config/lib/config.js 1018:16-37

ERROR in ./~/config/lib/config.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'x2js' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/config/lib
 @ ./~/config/lib/config.js 1024:12-27

ERROR in ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'module' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script
 @ ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js 129:23-40 169:17-34

ERROR in ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'child_process' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script
 @ ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js 7:18-42

ERROR in ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'module' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script
 @ ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js 25:13-30

ERROR in ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/command.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'child_process' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script
 @ ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/command.js 16:8-32

ERROR in ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/repl.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'repl' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script
 @ ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/repl.js 11:13-28

ERROR in ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/grammar.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'jison' in /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script
 @ ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/grammar.js 5:11-27

ERROR in ./~/coffee-script/bin/coffee
Module parse failed: /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee Unexpected character '#' (1:0)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
SyntaxError: Unexpected character '#' (1:0)
    at Parser.pp.raise (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/node_modules/acorn/dist/acorn.js:920:13)
    at Parser.pp.getTokenFromCode (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/node_modules/acorn/dist/acorn.js:2813:8)
    at Parser.pp.readToken (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/node_modules/acorn/dist/acorn.js:2508:15)
    at Parser.pp.nextToken (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/node_modules/acorn/dist/acorn.js:2500:71)
    at Parser.parse (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/node_modules/acorn/dist/acorn.js:1615:10)
    at Object.parse (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/node_modules/acorn/dist/acorn.js:882:44)
    at Parser.parse (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/lib/Parser.js:902:15)
    at DependenciesBlock.<anonymous> (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack/lib/NormalModule.js:104:16)
    at DependenciesBlock.onModuleBuild (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack-core/lib/NormalModuleMixin.js:310:10)
    at nextLoader (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack-core/lib/NormalModuleMixin.js:275:25)
    at /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/webpack-core/lib/NormalModuleMixin.js:259:5
    at Storage.finished (/Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/enhanced-resolve/lib/CachedInputFileSystem.js:38:16)
    at /Users/luke/Sites/denizen-garden/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:78:16
    at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:404:3)
 @ ./~/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js 52:13-48

My config file is just a plain javascript file and it looks like this:

module.exports = {
    smartystreets: {
        endpoint: '//autocomplete-api.smartystreets.com/suggest',
        authId: 'xxx',
        authToken: 'xxx',
        jsonpParam: 'callback',
        key: 'xxx',
    },
    amazon: {
        region: 'us-east-1',
        IdentityPoolId: 'xxx',
        appId: 'xxx'
    }
}

[markstos]

Closing, as this does not appear to be a bug in node-config. If it is believed to be a bug in node-config, please provide a PR which adds a failing test to our test suite which demonstrates it.

[blahah]

@deni-zen this is the same bug as #345, fixed in #358