Package fails on require('fasttext-node');

[vladikus10]

I've just installed all of the required components and tried to install the fasttext-node npm package and it seems that the installation went fine, as got this in the terminal:

> fasttext-node@1.1.7 postinstall /home/vlad/Node/nlp/node_modules/fasttext-node
> ./install.sh

c++ compiler is installed... Cool...!!!
Git is installed... Cool...!!!
Curl is installed... Cool...!!!
Installing FastText-Node Module
Downloading Fast Text Library
Cloning into 'fastText'...
remote: Counting objects: 2069, done.
remote: Total 2069 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 2069
Receiving objects: 100% (2069/2069), 4.33 MiB | 1.61 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1307/1307), done.
Downloaded Fast Text Library.
Building the library
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/args.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/dictionary.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/productquantizer.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/matrix.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/qmatrix.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/vector.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/model.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/utils.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops -c src/fasttext.cc
c++ -pthread -std=c++0x -march=native -O3 -funroll-loops args.o dictionary.o productquantizer.o matrix.o qmatrix.o vector.o model.o utils.o fasttext.o src/main.cc -o fasttext
Installed FastText-Node Library

Building node module
./install.sh: line 79: /home/vlad/Node/nlp/node_modules/fasttext-node/node_modules/.bin/grunt: No such file or directory
Finished installing module

However, when I try to use the module by loading it like so: const fs = require('fasttext-node');, I receive the following message:

module.js:549
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/vlad/Node/nlp/node_modules/fasttext-node/dist/lib'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vlad/Node/nlp/node_modules/fasttext-node/index.js:4:18)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Any ideas why this is happening? FYI, I'm using Debian 9.

[vladikus10]

I just noticed that it shows ./install.sh: line 79: /home/vlad/Node/nlp/node_modules/fasttext-node/node_modules/.bin/grunt: No such file or directory just before finishing the installation, could this be an issue?

[jazzyarchitects]

@vladikus10 probably. But that shouldn't happen as yarn or npm should actually install grunt and build the module. Can you confirm if grunt was installed with npm install or not?

[vladikus10]

@jazzyarchitects It seems so:

npm list grunt
nlp@1.0.0 /home/vlad/Node/nlp
└─┬ fasttext-node@1.1.7
  └── grunt@1.0.2 

[jazzyarchitects]

Then try doing the following at the project root.

$ ./node_modules/.bin/grunt build

Out of curiosity, You have a grunt folder inside node_modules directory? or is it inside node_modules/fasttext-node/node_modules?

[vladikus10]

I get this:

./node_modules/.bin/grunt build
A valid Gruntfile could not be found. Please see the getting started guide for
more information on how to configure grunt: http://gruntjs.com/getting-started
Fatal error: Unable to find Gruntfile.

I checked the folders and the grunt module is the project/node_modules folder. The fasttext-node does not have a node_modules folder at all.

[jazzyarchitects]

The this should work:

$ cd node_modules/fasttext-node/ && node ../.bin/grunt build

[vladikus10]

I ended up with this:

~/Node/nlp$ cd node_modules/fasttext-node/ && node .././bin/grunt build
module.js:549
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/vlad/Node/nlp/node_modules/bin/grunt'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:609:3

SO is the grunt module supposed to be in the .bin folder and not just in the node_modules?

[jazzyarchitects]

First of all the path you passed is wrong. You used .././bin instead of ../.bin

Secondly, I think that yarn or npm directly copies the grunt binaries to .bin directory while installing. Try running yarn or npm again. It should work.

Else I would need more details like

1. OS
2. node version
3. yarn/npm version

[vladikus10]

Oh, sorry. I fixed the path and now it works. Thanks for the help!

[jazzyarchitects]

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