Generators not found

[dmassiani]

Hello,

I install generators globally but slush don't find any generators.
I'm using node 5.0
Please see screenshot

[joakimbeng]

Hmm, that's weird.
Where is the slush lib located? What do you get when running:

ls -l `which slush`

Also what does echo $NODE_PATH give you?

[dmassiani]

ls -l which slush
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 38 9 mar 10:43 /usr/local/bin/slush -> ../lib/node_modules/slush/bin/slush.js

echo $NODE_PATH : empty

[joakimbeng]

Ok, and what does npm -g root give you?

[dmassiani]

I use nvm.
/Users/david/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules

[joakimbeng]

I see, then I think the issue is caused by slush being installed before nvm was installed. May that be the case? Try to install slush again with: npm i -g slush and see if that solves the issue.

Also the next version of Slush will search for modules in the npm -g root path so then it shouldn't matter if Slush was installed before nvm or not. I haven't had the time to finish that yet though.

[dmassiani]

Sorry but slush being installer after nvm

[joakimbeng]

There seems to be multiple paths involved here (and multiple NodeJS versions as well):

• /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ - which is where slush is installed (and probably slush-angular as well) according to ls -l $(which slush)
• /Users/david/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules - which is where slush-angular-gulp is installed according to your screenshot
• /Users/david/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules - which is the path that your npm currently installs global modules to according to npm -g root

So I think you should try this:

1. switch to Node v5 with nvm and verify this with:
   • node -v - should show v5.x.x
   • npm -g root - should show /Users/david/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules
2. reinstall slush for this Node version and global modules folder with npm i -g slush
3. verify that /Users/david/.nvm/versions/node/v5.0.0/lib/node_modules/slush exists
4. verify that ls -l $(which slush) is pointing to bin/slush.js in the folder in step 3
5. rerun slush

If step 3 is ok but not 4 try to remove the symlink: rm -f /usr/local/bin/slush and then reinstall slush, hopefully a final time.

[joakimbeng]

@dmassiani any progress with this?

[dmassiani]

@joakimbeng sorry, I have many works since few weeks. Before breaking node, I need to finish it :)

[joakimbeng]

@dmassiani no worries, I know how it is!

[KErez]

It looks like slush don't take npm's /lib/node_modules in account when collecting lookup paths (see bin/slush.js)
This is an example on how to get the prefix from npm:

var npm = require("npm")
var myConfigObject = {}
npm.load(myConfigObject, function (er) {
    if (er) return handleError(er)
    console.log(npm.get('prefix'));
})

Taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17229721/how-to-programmatically-get-the-location-where-npm-installs-global-modules

[trevorhiley]

I just had the same issue. I started to install slush before I remembered to use NVM with the version of Node I wanted to install. I switched to that version using nvm and installed again. By using the commands above I found that it was finding the version of slush that installed before I switched to the current version of nvm. I removed that one manually, and then everything started working.