Posted by Bevan on January 25, 2011 at 12:15pm
I have been toying with Node.js and Express.js and have struggled to find help for problems. E.g. on Mac OS X express.js apps can not load in either the Jade nor the EJS templating engines. I have run npm install jade several times, but not had any luck. I am on Mac OS X, and think that this may be part of the problem.
Where can I get help with these sorts of questions? The documentation is rather limited.
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Half the people I know that
Half the people I know that use Node.js/Connect/Express have a Mac, so you should be ok with it :)
Of course as with any OSS project, a large percent of testing is left up to the community so problems might arise. For example at some point Node.js broke compatibility with Leopard and started throwing "Architecture mismatch" errors (32bit->64bit).This was a long time after Snow Leopard had come out, so the problem only affected a small amount of users.
In any case there are plenty of places to ask for help and the community is very vibrant:
* Most projects have Google Group pages that mostly act as mailing lists,
* Similarly they have github pages, where you can ask for support or open tickets if something is broken,
* Stackoverflow.com can also be helpful.
Cheers.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Express.js
Hi Bevan,
If you go into the node shell (just enter "node" in Terminal) then enter "var jade = require('jade')" it should load jade. Then when you enter "jade" you should see a dump of jade's exports. Do you end up seeing this dump? Just trying to suss out if it's a dependency issue.
I've had good luck using npm to install everything then using the "express" command in Terminal to generate a skeletal app...