When atom-shell application is ran using atom.exe that's inside this application directory from bash on windows then it can load same modules from node_modules more than once. This is minimal test case that reproduces this behaviour.
- On Windows machine (for example Windows 7) download and install Bash (for example Git Bash that's packaged with windows Git console client).
- Run bash terminal.
- Go to main folder of this project.
- Run
npm installto install atom-shell in node_modules folder. - Run
node_modules/atom-shell/dist/atom.exe .to start this atom-shell application in downloaded atom shell. - You'll notice that text "dep loaded" appears in console twice. It might lead to some serious elusive trouble especially when writing your atom-shell application using react and react-router modules.
- Applicaiton is ran from PowerShell or cmd.
- atom.exe is moved outside of the application folder before using it to run the application.
- Applicaiton is run on Linux or Mac
- In file index.html, the file app.js is loaded using
<script>require('./app')</script>instead of<script src="app.js"></script>
When attempting to develop atom-shell application using git bash (common tool), react and react-router (common js libraries) on might encounter problem with react being loaded twice.
This is visible as two console messages (if user doesn't have React DevTools extension installed):
"Download the React DevTools for a better development experience: http://fb.me/react-devtools",
It can also lead to more elusive problems with react being loaded twice that can manifest themselves with counterintuitive messages like:
"TypeError: Cannot read property 'firstChild' of undefined",
Problem and workarounds were discovered while investigating this issue: docker/kitematic#319