My situation
I’m checking out spine.js for a web application I’m thinking of writing. I’ve read all the documentation and gone through all the examples. Now I’m trying to run the spine.contacts example project on my own Windows 7 laptop.
I’m running node v0.6.6 for Windows
What I’ve done
- Installed node
- Installed spine, spine-app and hem through npm
- Extracted spine.contacts in a folder
- Run
npm install .inside the folder, which created the node_modules folder with a bunch of directories inside, including jqueryify - Run
hem serverto start the test server - Basically followed all the instructions to the letter
The problem
Running the application in Chrome (http://localhost:9294), JavaScript throws an exception at line 9 in index.html (I’ve included index.html below). It reads “Uncaught module jqueryify not found”. I know the jqueryify dependency was installed by npm earlier, but I tried removing that line anyway and linking in jQuery manually. Now I got the error “Uncaught module index not found” in application.js. That certainly isn’t a dependency error, since the index.js file is local and it’s the main script file in the project.
So it seems there’s a problem with the require function. I’ve Googled a lot and nothing I’ve found has indicated that spine.js shouldn’t work on Windows.
Any ideas?
Some links
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>App</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/application.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
<script src="/application.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
var jQuery = require("jqueryify"); // I'm line 9!!
var exports = this;
jQuery(function(){
var App = require("index");
exports.app = new App({el: $("#article")});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<header id="header"><h1>Spine Contacts</h1></header>
<article id="article"></article>
</body>
</html>
Hem is not supported on Windows. I found myself in the same situation and tried the same approaches.
More info here: https://github.com/maccman/hem/issues/23