Error when using from react

[jc064522]

I see the error message Error: Cannot find module "." when trying to run a react app which includes node-zookeeper-client. The error occurs on line 776 when trying to require the specification file, ./specification.json. This file doesn't exist in the code bundled by webpack. I'm using node-zookeeper-client as a transitive dependency of zoologist.

A potential fix: if specification.json was specification.js and exported the json as a var then the import would work. I've tried this. Happy to put in a PR if you'd like me to. I could probably work around this with some webpack changes but: 1) at the moment the dependency fails when used from react and you probably don't want this and 2) I might have to 'eject' the app from the cradle of create-react-app and I'd rather not do that for this reason.

Steps to reproduce (I'm using yarn here but the steps could easily be npm):

1. $ create-react-app node-zookeeper-client_react_test
   1. I'm using create-react-app version 1.3.1.
2. $ cd node-zookeeper-client
3. $ yarn add node-zookeeper-client
4. Edit src/App.js and add var zookeeper = require('node-zookeeper-client'); below the imports. (Using an import produces the same error).
5. $ yarn start and let it open the app's root page

[jlandersen]

Stumbled upon this as well - webpack in general doesen't like expression dependencies. Just changing:
var specification = require(SPECIFICATION_FILE);

to
var specification = require('specification.json');

seems to do the trick

[snoodleboot]

Doesn't appear to me that this was ever resolved

[poojaKarande13]

@jlandersen the fix suggested by you worked!
On line 771 in node_modules/node-zookeeper-client/lib/jute/index.js I changed
var specification = require(SPECIFICATION_FILE);
to
var specification = require('./specification.json');

Background: I am trying to use npm kafka-node in a React web app. (kafka-node has an internal dependency on node-zookeeper-client.)
On running the command npm start I got this error Error: Cannot find module "./specification.json"