Error - Cannot find module 'broccoli'

Question

I'm getting this error and cannot find any way to fix it. It occurs upon trying to execute broccoli build.

Error: Cannot find module 'broccoli' from '/Users/devel/Projects/broccoliTest'
    at Function.module.exports [as sync] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/broccoli-cli/node_modules/resolve/lib/sync.js:32:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/broccoli-cli/bin/broccoli:7:28)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:906:3

I've just installed sudo npm install -g broccoli and sudo npm install -g broccoli-cli. The broccoli executable file is fine, obv:

>which broccoli
/usr/local/bin/broccoli

so it seems that the broccoli module is not correctly installed, although no error occured in the installation process.

ls /usr/local/lib/node_modules/broccoli
CHANGELOG.md    LICENSE     README.md   docs        lib     node_modules    package.json    templates

Any ideas?

To install a package both for command line and for requiring, it has to be [installed both globally and locally](https://www.npmjs.org/doc/files/npm-folders.html) -- "● *Install it **locally** if you're going to `require()` it. ● Install it **globally** if you're going to run it on the command line.*" And, "*local*" means [relative to the script's path](http://nodejs.org/api/modules.html#modules_loading_from_node_modules_folders). — Jonathan Lonowski, Jun 15 '14 at 11:35

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '14 at 11:49

Globally installed packages aren't made available to require(), by design:

Install it locally if you're going to require() it.

Install it globally if you're going to run it on the command line.

If you need both, then install it in both places, or use npm link.

You'll have to also install it locally, relative to your scripts:

cd /Users/devel/Projects/broccoliTest
npm install broccoli

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '19 at 01:38

You can execute you command using a relative path like this:

./node_modules/.bin/broccoli build

To avoid that you can use broccoli-cli to take care of figuring out the path for you.

yarn add -D broccoli-cli
npm install --save-dev broccoli-cli

Or you can just install it globally.

Error - Cannot find module 'broccoli'

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