Wintersmith: error Error loading plugin './node_modules/wintersmith-coffee/': Cannot find module './plugin'

Question

I built a site with wintersmith in November of 2013. It's live at http://powma.com

I'm coming back to it, but it's not building :-{

I don't mind getting my hands dirty, but I don't know where to start. I'm getting this error:

error Error loading plugin './node_modules/wintersmith-coffee/': Cannot find module './plugin'

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Mike

UPDATE

Hey, this is because the coffeescript wasn't getting compiled.

I installed it globally, but that didn't help.

$ sudo npm install -g coffee-script

I manually compiled it and moved to other errors. Any suggestions for what's missing?

$ coffee -c plugin.coffee 

Here's my config.json:

{
  "locals":
    { "url": "http://localhost:8080"
    , "title": "Powma"
    , "subTitle": "Linking you to technology"
    , "motto": "We build exceptions sites and applications to connect people to products, services, and each other."
    , "owner": "Michael Cole"
    , "profilePicture": "/static/img/profile-professional.jpg"
    , "inlineSpriteMaxBytes" : 10000
    },
  "views": "./views",
  "plugins":
    [ "./node_modules/wintersmith-coffee/"
    , "./node_modules/wintersmith-stylus/"
    ],
  "require": {
    "moment": "moment",
    "_": "underscore",
    "typogr": "typogr"
  },
  "jade": {
    "pretty": true
  },
  "markdown": {
    "smartLists": true,
    "smartypants": true
  },
  "paginator": {
    "perPage": 3
  }
}

And package.json:

{
  "name": "Powma-com",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "private": true,
  "engines": {
    "node": "0.10.17"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "moment": "2.0.x",
    "underscore": "1.5.x",
    "typogr": "0.5.x",
    "wintersmith": "2.0.x",
    "wintersmith-stylus": "git://github.com/MichaelJCole/wintersmith-stylus.git#master",
    "wintersmith-coffee": "0.2.x",
    "express": "3.4.x",
    "sendgrid": "~0.3.0-rc.1.7",
    "express-validator": "~0.8.0",
    "underscore-express": "0.0.4"
  }
}

This is a new dev laptop I'm working with so that may be part of the problem.

I worked around the issue, but didn't fix it. Do I really need to manually compile the coffeescript?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I solved this issue by explicitly specifying plugin.coffee in the config.json file.

{ ...other stuff... "plugins": [ "./node_modules/wintersmith-coffee/plugin.coffee" , "./node_modules/wintersmith-stylus/plugin.coffee" ], ...more stuff... }