Node.js examples

[Tranek]

How do I run the Node.js examples?

I installed paper.js as a node module (have to npm install canvas first which requires the Cairo libraries) using:

npm install git://github.com/paperjs/paper.js.git

After getting it installed, I tried to run the examples using:

node AnimatedStar.js

and it errors with:

dan@ubuntu:~/Desktop/papertest/node_modules/paper/examples/Node.js$ node AnimatedStar.js 

/home/dan/Desktop/papertest/node_modules/paper/node.js/index.js:45

vm.runInContext(source, context, uri);

  ^

ReferenceError: self is not defined

    at ../../lib/acorn-min.js:1:24949

    at vm.createContext.include (/home/dan/Desktop/papertest/node_modules/paper/node.js/index.js:45:6)

    at core/PaperScript.js:19:7

    at vm.createContext.include (/home/dan/Desktop/papertest/node_modules/paper/node.js/index.js:45:6)

    at new <anonymous> (paper.js:125:7)

    at paper.js:32:13

    at Context.vm.createContext.include (/home/dan/Desktop/papertest/node_modules/paper/node.js/index.js:45:6)

    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/dan/Desktop/papertest/node_modules/paper/node.js/index.js:51:9)

    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

This same error happens on both Ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit) and Windows 7 64-bit.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[Tranek]

Adding the require('paper') line to any node app results in the error too.

I'm using nodejs 0.10.4 on both Windows 7 64-bit and Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit.

Thoughts? Is there any more information that I can provide to help figure out how to make it work?

Thanks!

[Tranek]

Solved it! In the acorn-min.js, I changed the only instance of "self" to "this". Is this a change that we can push to the paperjs repository? 

[Jürg Lehni]

Oh wow. Thanks for spotting!

Before changing acorn.js we should try updating to the latest version and see if that works.

It's late here, will do so tomorrow.

J

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[Tranek]

This guy solved it first - https://github.com/paperjs/paper.js/issues/205

I look forward to hearing your response about the new version of acorn.

Thanks!

On Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:56:53 PM UTC-4, Tranek wrote:

[Jürg Lehni]

I have fixed this issue now, and have published paper to npm:

https://npmjs.org/package/paper

Please let me know how it works for you!

Note that version numbers are out of whack, but we'll soon release a proper 1.0 for browsers and node, and from there onwards will finally have a proper release cycle :)

Cheers,

Jürg

[Tranek]

Thanks Jurg! It's working great so far! It's so much better not having to include the paperjs node module in our project and instead just include it as a dependency in our package.json :)

On Saturday, April 27, 2013 7:56:53 PM UTC-4, Tranek wrote: