Question

I am attempting to run a simple node.js webserver using Cygwin. I copied the file into test.js after installing node and this is what I got.

$ node test.js

node.js:116
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
        ^
Error: Cannot find module 'posix'
    at Function._resolveFilename (module.js:299:11)
    at Function._load (module.js:245:25)
    at require (module.js:327:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/me/test.js:27:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:383:26)
    at Object..js (module.js:389:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:315:31)
    at Function._load (module.js:276:12)
    at Array.<anonymous> (module.js:402:10)
    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:108:26)

user@host ~
$

Answer 1

Which version of node did you install? If you take a look at the node change log, require('posix') was moved into require('fs') in the API back in version 0.1.29 (2010.02.17). The gist is quite old.