ENOENT Error building with Gulp

[Keith Lesser]

Attempting to build with gulp-durandal.   I've followed the instructions on the durandal site.  When I run gulp durandal I am consistently gettting the following.  I realize that gulp is looking for a js file called css but I do not define such a file anywhere and can't track down where it is looking for this file.  I've tried minify:false and almond:false and still get the error.  This is a .NET backend. We've by and large ignored Razor.   Anyone seen this?

note: 'xxx' is mine.  Path is correct for the application in the error message

Durandal Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'C:\xxx\xxx\xxx
.WebApp\app\css.js'
    at Error (native)

Here's my gulpfile:

gulp.task('durandal', function(){
    return durandal()
    .pipe(gulp.dest('./output'));
});

I don't get any better info when including 'verbose:true',

[Robert Greyling]

Hey Keith,

I can't see anything specifically wrong with what you've shown, but that's not very much so there may be something we've missed. I've written a tutorial on this exact process with all the code for you to see. Perhaps it will show you something different to your code and you might spot the problem. This works perfectly for me:

https://javascriptkicks.com/articles/4230/deploying-your-spa-to-azure-with-gulp

Hope that helps,

Rob

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[Keith Lesser]

Thanks for your reply, Rob.  I think I was more asking about the specific error.  I have also tried more explicit gulp-durandal configurations but continue to receive this particular error which I can't make heads or tails of.  Short of posting my entire codebase not sure how much more code I could post.  I am really just am not sure where to search for the cause of this non-existent-file error.  I am fairly new to node and gulp, so I might not be posting some crucial bit of info that would make this all clear to the reader. 

[David]

Hi Keith,

This issue occurs if there are any .css files in the app folder.

In the example Rob links to the .css files are in the content folder, which is why it works in Rob's example.

You have 3 options:

1. move your .css files out of the app folder
2. pass the pluginMap config option, and don't list .css -- you can see the defaults at: https://github.com/welldone-software/gulp-durandal/blob/4eacd22fcc567a372e04e6de443b0228572d6400/index.js#L27
3. get a pull request into Durandal to change its behaviour

In the project I'm working on, I went with option 2, here's the code:

durandal({

            almond: true,

            minify: true,

            pluginMap: {

                '.html': 'text'

            }

        })

I hope this helps,

David

[Keith Lesser]

Thanks.  Yeah, I figured that out.  I had a plugin that had its own css.  Once I moved the plugin out of the App(shouldn't have been there anyway) everything worked fine.