Meteor 2.3.2 - Error: Cannot find module 'reify/lib/runtime'

[timheckel]

I’m simply running:

meteor create test
cd test
meteor bundle ~/test-bundle --directory --server-only
cd ~/test-bundle/bundle
meteor node main.js

It happens both locally (osx) and remote (linux x64).

Perhaps I’m missing something, but I would expect this to run without the reify exception. Is this new to 2.3.2 and the server-side reify cache integration?

[truedon]

Need to see the error to be able to help you more

[rjdavid]

@timheckel

Perhaps I’m missing something

You have to npm install on bundle/program/server

@timheckel

meteor bundle

Also, I believe this is deprecated in favor of meteor build

[timheckel]

Thanks for your help. Aha, I meant to paste meteor build not meteor bundle - it’s been a bit and also I didn’t realize that npm install was mandatory post build.

Also, apologies for the confusion - the exception is in the title (Error: Cannot find module 'reify/lib/runtime') - without running npm install, this is what I get when attempting to meteor node main.js.

What’s confusing is why the build seems to have node_modules already without any npm install. Do you happen to know the purpose the bundle contains bundle/programs/server/npm/node_modules?

Thanks.

[rjdavid]

@timheckel

What’s confusing is why the build seems to have node_modules already without any npm install . Do you happen to know the purpose the bundle contains bundle/programs/server/npm/node_modules ?

We were discussing that in another thread. Will post here once I find them

[rjdavid]

Oh, you were part of the discussion.

Meteor build - ignore node_modules

I’m confused why the meteor build system is trying to tar gzip the node_modules folder? Since the README itself states one must cd to the programs/server and run npm install. If you have a large project, the build time is well over 15 to 20 minutes. And the output gzip is 90+ mb, which expands to over 200 mb. Hell, even the base-project (“meteor create myapp”) is 20+mb and over 5 minutes to build. Strip away node_modules and it’s less than 2mb. If we are running npm on the server anyway, w…

[timheckel]

Right - thanks for following up. Understanding that /npm directory would certainly help understand the meteor build process more. Years ago, I thought meteor build (or bundle) would produce a one-off tarball that required no additional modification prior to running node main.js inside of it.

[copleykj]

npm packages aren’t included in the build because many have binaries and there’s no guarantee you will be on the same arch as the system you deploy to. If you build on Mac or Windows and then deploy to Linux, any binary dependencies will not run.

[truedon]

Open the tarball and check the README it’s all there bud