I'm writing a web app using the MEAN stack. I installed multer via npm like so:
sudo npm install -g multer
and I require it in one of my routes files:
var multer = require("multer");
I'm using nodemon
and it throws the following error every time it restarts since I've added the require statement.
28 Feb 18:39:13 - [nodemon] restarting due to changes...
28 Feb 18:39:13 - [nodemon] starting `node ./bin/www`
module.js:338
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'multer'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/jason/Desktop/Node/todoApp/routes/todos.js:8:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
28 Feb 18:39:13 - [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...
I've installed mongo, node, and express all in the past two days. I'm running OS X Yosemite version 10.10.2.
You have to install the module locally, without the -g
flag:
$ npm i multer
Alternatively, you can either link the globally installed module to local directory or specify an environment variable NODE_PATH
as illustrated in NodeJS require a global module/package