gulp cannot find module 'notify-send' on Laravel 5 Homestead

Question

I'm working with Laravel 5 (Elixir) and homestead v2.5 in Ubuntu 14.10. When I typed gulp and press enter in homestead ssh, I found the following error:

Error: Cannot find module './lib/notifiers/notify-send'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vagrant/Code/rumta/node_modules/laravel-elixir/node_modules/gulp-notify/node_modules/node-notifier/index.js:2:12)
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 Module.require (module.js:364:17)

What should I do to solved this problem?

Quique García Cruz · Answer 1 · 2016-07-06T04:24:15.180

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This happened to me too with an unfinished previous installation.

A better solution I found was just removing node_modules/ folder inside my project and run again [sudo] npm install.

Hope this helps somebody else, regards!

Update Note: "sudo" is not needed, a better practice is solve permissions issue in npm following this guide

edited Jul 06 '16 at 04:24

answered Apr 08 '15 at 05:53

Quique García Cruz

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This solution worked for me and is also recommended here: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/9204 – Ixalmida Apr 01 '16 at 19:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '15 at 09:17

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SOLVED!

Make new project and run sudo npm install.

answered Mar 15 '15 at 09:17

Surahman

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You shouldn't be doing `sudo` for that. Your project files should never need to be owned by root. – Alexander Trauzzi Apr 21 '16 at 11:54

gulp cannot find module 'notify-send' on Laravel 5 Homestead

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