Node.js proper module export

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Hi,

I’m currently updating my multiplatform Hello Kotlin project
https://github.com/wojta/hello-kotlin/tree/kotlin-1.2-beta with new multiplatform support Kotlin introduced. There are not many problems related to that.

But there is another problem not related to multiplatform support. I have project module called hello_js_node_app and it’s supposed to be run as Node.js app. It has one dependency on other kotlin2Js module called hello_lib_js. I need to export properly .js files from jars of both modules to have it imported by require() module.
So far I have this build.gradle and assembleJs task expands everything to the node_modules.

node_modules look like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-k1pGbOW-o3VmNiVXZwNEZCVXc/preview

Problem is that when I execute node ./app.js, it can’t find kotlin module dependecy. I’m not sure about Node module directory structure, but I have not deep knowledge of Node.

node error message 
vsazel@vsazel-thinkpad ~/git/ghdrive/experiments/hello-kotlin/hello_js_node_app $ node ./app.js 
/home/vsazel/git/ghdrive/experiments/hello-kotlin/hello_js_node_app/node_modules/hello_lib_js.js:2
  throw new Error("Error loading module 'hello_lib_js'. Its dependency 'kotlin' was not found. Please, check whether 'kotlin' is loaded prior to 'hello_lib_js'.");
  ^

Error: Error loading module 'hello_lib_js'. Its dependency 'kotlin' was not found. Please, check whether 'kotlin' is loaded prior to 'hello_lib_js'.
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vsazel/git/ghdrive/experiments/hello-kotlin/hello_js_node_app/node_modules/hello_lib_js.js:2:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vsazel/git/ghdrive/experiments/hello-kotlin/hello_js_node_app/node_modules/hello_js_node_app.js:24:38)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)

So is there some more convinent or correct way to export Kotlin modules as node modules?

Thanks

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Looks like for some reason moduleKind property did not apply properly. Did you set up moduleKind=commonjs for hello_lib build script? Can you provide more information? Perhaps, share your project?

3

Ah, I just realized that you provided link to whole project. Yes, I could not find moduleKind in hello_lib_js. Please add it the way similar you did in hello_js_node_app.

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Thanks for pointing me to the right direction. I managed to get node modules working. I need only now to get it working with the client-side JS again. Maybe it will help using browserify or something like that.

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Yes, you can use browserify or webpack for this purpose. Another way is to use “umd” as a module kind, which is supported by both browsers and node.