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  • M Offline
    MichMich Admin
    last edited by May 18, 2016, 8:53 AM

    What does it lockup? The fronted? Or the backend?

    If it’s just the frontend, check your webinspector/console to see what’s going on.

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      mattlugar @MichMich
      last edited by May 18, 2016, 2:26 PM

      That’s where my lack of knowledge on how to debug in this new environment was hurting me. Was able to figure out a better way to debug and now have something to work with.

      Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined
      

      Off to roll up my sleeves and do some mad google-fu.

      Thank you! :)

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      • K Offline
        KirAsh4 Moderator
        last edited by May 18, 2016, 6:18 PM

        That’s because require isn’t part of JavaScript. It’s part of node.js to load modules. There are potentially other ways of doing what you’re trying to do. You may want to check out this post on Stack Overflow.

        A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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        • M Offline
          mattlugar
          last edited by May 19, 2016, 12:54 AM

          Yeah, I went about it differently than I wanted to. I ended up porting everything to an apache directory so it serves itself as a webapp. Had a few bugs to work out (it was locking up if the json was in the middle of writing when it was retrieved) but I have it working and bug free now best I can tell :)

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          • K Offline
            KirAsh4 Moderator
            last edited by May 19, 2016, 3:55 PM

            I suppose that’s one way to do that … doesn’t make it very portable or sharable to others. It’s no longer contained within only MM and Node.js … But, if it’s working for you and does what you want, that’s the only thing that matters.

            A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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              MichMich Admin
              last edited by May 19, 2016, 5:04 PM

              Just so you know, the node_helper can serve files as well: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/tree/master/modules#thisexpressapp

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              • K Offline
                KirAsh4 Moderator
                last edited by May 19, 2016, 5:11 PM

                I saw that when I was fiddling with some other stuff, but never actually tested it. Is that path relative to the actual module location? Or MM’s installation? Or the user that’s running MM? So if '/foo/bar/baz' is defined, where does it start?

                /foo/bar/baz? (OH PLEASE SAY NO, for the love of all that is sacred, tell me Node.js does NOT allow system reads like that!)
                $HOME/foo/bar/baz ?
                $HOME/MagicMirror/foo/bar/baz?
                $HOME/MagicMirror/modules/foo/bar/baz?
                $HOME/MagicMirror/modules/<MODULE>/foo/bar/baz?
                

                A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                  MichMich Admin
                  last edited by May 19, 2016, 5:22 PM

                  If you are referring to this snippet:

                  start: function() {
                      this.expressApp.get('/foobar', function (req, res) {
                          res.send('GET request to /foobar');
                      });
                  }
                  

                  The /foobar is referring to the url: http://localhost:8080/foobar

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                  • K Offline
                    KirAsh4 Moderator
                    last edited by May 19, 2016, 5:30 PM

                    Ah, so it’s still an HTTP call then, not a simple fileread from disk.

                    A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                    • M Offline
                      MichMich Admin
                      last edited by May 19, 2016, 5:41 PM

                      Exactly.

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