Chokidar: Error: Cannot find module fsevents

[j-fliegenschmidt]

I just gave chokidar a shot (found you on SO). I got the latest version via NPM (I'm on Win8 64bit), but require() would fail with error "Cannot find module fsevents", after reverting to 0.7.1, that error is gone.

I did try to get fsevents via NPM, but that failed with

npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/fsevents
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/fsevents
gypnpm ERR! weird error 1
npm

[paulmillr]

Works for me. Windows 8.1 64bit.

Indeed node-gyp doesn't really build chokidar deps but this is intentional.

$ npm install --save chokidar
$ node
require('chokidar').watch('.')
// watching

[j-fliegenschmidt]

Hmm, that works for me, too.
I still get the error in my IDE though- gonna look into it again later.

[dweldon]

I get the same thing on ubuntu 13.04 with node 0.10.22:

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/fswatch/nodefsevents.o
../nodefsevents.cc:13:39: fatal error: CoreServices/CoreServices.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/fswatch/nodefsevents.o] Error 1

However, the module works fine.

[paulmillr]

As i've said -- this is expected. Don't worry.

[jyoung-fs]

For people coming here while trying to use nexe on linux to compile a project with this module, you need to comment out this line: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/blob/master/lib/fsevents-handler.js#L7 . Browserify (I believe it's this) tries to gather all dependencies by scanning require's, and it tries to find this dependency which isn't used on linux.

[heyimalex]

It's the same issue if you're using webpack. And probably any other module bundler that needs to statically resolve dependencies. Here's a one liner to fix it.

sed -i '/try { fsevents = require/d' node_modules/chokidar/lib/fsevents-handler.js