Tricks & Traps

Experimenting

If experimenting / playing around (will not be publishing the project and/or do not need version control) then ignore the warning (see alternative to supress below)

npm WARN play@1.0.0 No repository field.

Supress Warning

We may supress the "No repository field" by adding the "private" flag as shown here to our "package.json".

"private": true

Add Version Control

We add version control by adding a "repository" section to our "package.json" file as shown.

(using actual url)

"repository": {
  "type": "git",
  "url": "git://github.com/username/repository.git"
}

Fussy File Path (Missing Dot)

Assure you have the first form shown

Works
{TestLab} = require('./test-lab');

Does Not Work
{TestLab} = require('/test-lab');

Does Not Work
{TestLab} = require('test-lab');
}

Debugging Locally External File

Assure you have the first form shown

Say you have separate projects module S (source) and module C (client). A and C live in different project directories.

If debugging mehod S.foo.go() from module C, then we need to open S.foo and set a breakpoint in method go().
}