Re: node.js mongodb windows platform, require("mongodb") fails

[Gianfranco]

This is more a npm / node problem but it depends where you install the packages.

If you install with the -g option, it will be place them in the system path, instead of the current project.

npm install -g mongodb

Check if that package is installed with:

npm list

and with -g if in the global directory

Otherwise specify the directory where the package is installed:

var mongodb = require("./mongodb");

See more info in the documentation page:

http://nodejs.org/api/modules.html#modules_loading_from_node_modules_folders

Lastly you can try:

npm link jade

On Saturday, September 22, 2012 7:30:28 PM UTC+1, gd52 wrote:

In the project directory for my application,at the command prompt I did

npm install mongodb

The messages indicated that it installed ok.

In my test program I add the line:

var mongodb = require("mongodb");

The application aborted with a message saying it could not find "mongodb".

I also tried with mongoskin, getting the same result.

When I installed "express and added the following line":

var express = require("express");

it worked fine.

What is going wrong?

Please remember that this is the windows platform.