run meteor-client:bundle results in semver directory not found error

[ntombi]

Hi,

I've been stuck on step 4 of the "WhatsApp Clone with Meteor and Ionic 2 CLI" tutorial for several days now. When I run the "npm run meteor-client:bundle" command, meteor seems to create an app in a Temp folder (Windows 10 OS) and then complains about semver directory not being there. I tried copying the semver folder that was in my whatsapp/node_modules folder, but it then complains that 'C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Local\Temp\semver\bin\semver' is not a directory. Please help me get over this hurdle.

Here are my system details:
OS: Windows 10
npm: 5.5.1
meteor: 1.6.0.1

Dependencies:
@angular/... : 5.0.3
@ionic-native/... : 4.4.0
babel-runtime: 6.26.0
ionic-angular: 3.9.2
meteor-rxjs: 0.4.8
semver: 5.4.1

Error Details:
`PS C:\Code\Tutorials\WhatsAppClone\whatsapp> npm run meteor-client:bundle

[email protected] meteor-client:bundle C:\Code\Tutorials\WhatsAppClone\whatsapp
meteor-client bundle -s api

Created a new Meteor app in
'C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp-13204ubo4fNnA20Pw'.

To run your new app:
cd C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp-13204ubo4fNnA20Pw
meteor

If you are new to Meteor, try some of the learning resources here:
https://www.meteor.com/tutorials

meteor create --bare to create an empty app.
meteor create --full to create a scaffolded app.

up to date in 2.498s

Changes to your project's package version selections:

barbatus:typescript added, version 0.6.12
barbatus:typescript-compiler added, version 0.9.12
barbatus:typescript-runtime added, version 1.0.2

WARNING: The output directory is under your source tree.
Your generated files may get interpreted as source code!
Consider building into a different directory instead
meteor build ../output

C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.6.0-rc.7\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_bundle\lib\node_modules\meteor-promise\promise_server.js:218
throw error;
^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Local\Temp\semver\bin\semver'
at Object.fs.statSync (fs.js:955:11)
at Object.wrapper (C:\tools\fs\files.js:1594:35)
at Object.files.(anonymous function) [as stat] (C:\tools\fs\files.js:1729:27)
at symlinkWithOverwrite (C:\tools\isobuild\builder.js:727:17)
at optimisticReaddir.forEach.item (C:\tools\isobuild\builder.js:554:11)
at Array.forEach ()
at walk (C:\tools\isobuild\builder.js:462:34)
at optimisticReaddir.forEach.item (C:\tools\isobuild\builder.js:551:11)
at Array.forEach ()
at walk (C:\tools\isobuild\builder.js:462:34)
at Builder.copyDirectory (C:\tools\isobuild\builder.js:589:5)
at C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2248:17
at Function..each..forEach (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.6.0-rc.7\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_bundle\lib\node_modules\underscore\underscore.js:87:22)
at JsImage.write (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2207:7)
at ServerTarget.write (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2479:13)
at C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2599:30
at Object.keys.forEach.name (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2734:9)
at Array.forEach ()
at C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2724:26
at C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:3065:22
at C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:271:13
at exports.EnvironmentVariable.withValue (C:\tools\utils\fiber-helpers.js:89:14)
at C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:264:29
at exports.EnvironmentVariable.withValue (C:\tools\utils\fiber-helpers.js:89:14)
at C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:262:18
at exports.EnvironmentVariable.withValue (C:\tools\utils\fiber-helpers.js:89:14)
at C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:253:23
at exports.EnvironmentVariable.withValue (C:\tools\utils\fiber-helpers.js:89:14)
at Object.capture (C:\tools\utils\buildmessage.js:252:19)
at bundle (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2898:31)
at files.withCache (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2845:32)
at Object.withCache (C:\tools\fs\files.js:1694:12)
at Object.exports.bundle (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:2845:16)
at buildCommand (C:\tools\cli\commands.js:1010:30)
at Command.func (C:\tools\cli\commands.js:885:12)
at C:\tools\cli\main.js:1491:23
C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\node_modules\execa\index.js:277
throw (result.error || new Error(result.stderr === '' ? result.stdout : result.stderr));
^

Error: null
at Function.module.exports.sync (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\node_modules\execa\index.js:277:26)
at Object.bundle (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\lib\bundler.js:97:9)
at Command. (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\cli:47:13)
at Command.listener (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\node_modules\commander\index.js:315:8)
at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
at Command.emit (events.js:214:7)
at Command.parseArgs (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\node_modules\commander\index.js:653:12)
at Command.parse (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\node_modules\commander\index.js:475:21)
at Object. (C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteor-client-bundler\cli:55:9)
at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] meteor-client:bundle: meteor-client bundle -s api
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] meteor-client:bundle script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Ntombi\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2017-12-13T18_07_14_377Z-debug.log
`
Many thanks,
Ntombi

[IlicPavle]

Try updating your meteor version or if that doesn't work specify meteor version in a config file that you will add to the bundle script. I had the same issue and this worked for me.

[ntombi]

Thank you very much @IlicPavle! I tried modifying a bunch of files (package.json, package-lock.json) to add the meteor version. Either modifying package-lock.json or appending --packs-dir ./packages to the run meteor-client bundle command did the trick. I'm glad I can finally move on. Thanks again!

[paskuale22]

what did you do exactly?
thnx

[adelriosantiago]

Doing npm run meteor-client:bundle --packs-dir ./packages will work. I think it is because the default value is METEOR_PACKAGE_DIRS="/usr/local/my_packages/" (see https://docs.meteor.com/environment-variables.html#METEOR-PACKAGE-DIRS) which will not exist in Windows 10. So a temporal path must be used.

[matheusBrant]

@ntombi @adelriosantiago it works! Thanksss