Upgrading jsreport to v2 errors out

Farah Javed

Just found out that when I use jsreport start locally from .bin direcotry, I see "start" option. However when I call it globally using jsreport start, command is unavailable. Please help!!

bjrmatos

hmm according to the error message the cli is not able to find that your directory has jsreport installed, probably the code is getting into some conflict trying to get the correct paths. can you please paste here what is the location of the globally installed cli? i think you can do this in windows to find out which jsreport. also please paste here your project path (i guess it is C:\source\jsreportapp). maybe the global cli and the project path share the same root directory and somehow there is some conflict with that.

something you can try is to run with the locally installed cli, by using npx jsreport start or node node_modules/.bin/jsreport start

Farah Javed

Initially, globally installed cli was getting installed in users folder i.e. C:\Users\..\AppData\Roaming\npm. I changed the global location to C:\source\npm\ folder. In both cases, it's not working. This is the current location of globally installed cli

C:\source\npm\jsreport
C:\source\npm\jsreport.cmd

My project path is C:\source\jsreportapp

bjrmatos

hmm not sure what happens but it seems to me that the problem is related to having the global modules and the project app sharing the same root location or some permissions error that is not shown, the issue needs debugging with your same folders so i'm not sure we will be able to replicate the problem.

as a last resource, what is the output of jsreport start --verbose, share all the logs printed maybe there is some information there that can be helpful

Farah Javed

Here is the output of jsreport start --verbose

C:\>jsreport start --verbose
"start" command not found in this installation, check that you are writing the command correctly or check if the command is available in your installation, use "jsreport -h" to see the list of available commands

jan_blaha

What is your nodejs version? Try it out with the LTS one. https://nodejs.org
I mean try to uninstall everything and try again.
You still didn't posted the output of jsreport init. It could be interesting.

Farah Javed

just downgraded to LTS version. Still seeing same issue, jsreport start and other cli commands are unavailable. Any how, i executed jsreport init script. Here is the output

C:\source\jsreportapp>jsreport init --verbose
jsreport installation not found, installing jsreport latest version now, wait a moment...
jsreport installation finished..
Creating server.js
Creating package.json
Creating default config jsreport.config.json
Initialized

Node and npm versions

C:\>node --version
v8.12.0
C:\>npm --version
6.4.1

jan_blaha

Hm. That looks good. Can you zip the jsreportapp an upload it somewhere?

Farah Javed

shared my folder here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YoADIxqEyn7PAUgVQeiLpeuftDSgjy-a/view?usp=sharing

jan_blaha

Why do you have in that folder jsreport.exe?

Farah Javed

i added jsreport.exe because jsreport start does not work with jsreport-cli (an issue stated above). When i use jsreport.exe start, i am able to start the server

jan_blaha

The structure of node_modules isn't flattened. This is not the way how the npm installs it by default.
This is the way how npm v2 installs modules. Haven't you done any configuration to the npm?

I would recommend to delete package-lock.json, node_modules and jsreport.exe.

Then type npm install . The jsreport start should work afterwards. If you have properly working npm.

Farah Javed

Thank you for your help. I turned off npm legacy-bundling and it worked!!