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jensenj08's avatar

When running gulp in spark cannot find acorn

I installed spark on Windows, but gulp will not run

gulp

[21:16:46] Using gulpfile ~\Documents\GitHub\champ\gulpfile.js [21:16:46] Starting 'all'... [21:16:46] Starting 'less'... [21:16:50] Finished 'less' after 3.55 s [21:16:50] Starting 'webpack'... { [Error: ./resources/assets/js/app.js Module build failed: Error: Cannot find module 'acorn/dist/acorn.js' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at __commonjs_global (C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\node_modules\buble\dist\buble.umd.js:2:83) at Object. (C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\node_modules\buble\dist\buble.umd.js:5:2) 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)] message: './resources/assets/js/app.js\nModule build failed: Error: Cannot find module 'acorn/dist/acorn.js'\n at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)\n at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)\n at Module.require (module.js:353:17)\n at require (internal/module.js:12:17)\n at __commonjs_global (C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\node_modules\buble\dist\buble.umd.js:2:83)\n at Object. (C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\node_modules\buble\dist\buble.umd.js:5:2)\n at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)\n at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)\n at Module.load (module.js:343:32)\n at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)', showStack: false, showProperties: true, plugin: 'webpack-stream', __safety: { toString: [Function: bound ] } }

I've tried npm install acorn and npm install -g acorn with no success...

Any ideas?

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ejdelmonico's avatar

Try trashing your node_modules folder and then nom install again to see if that fixes the missing modules. Sometimes, everything doesn't get installed. Pay attention to the output messages incase something is preventing acorn from installing.

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