node.js local modules :cannot find module error

Question

I am trying to implement local modules in my application

1.Project root folder i have created folder named test with a file named index.js

      module.exports  = {

     myFunction:function(){
       console.log('ok');
     }
}

2.Added the following in package.json in the root folder

"dependencies": { 
    "test-module": "file:test"
  }

3.When i try to import var module = require('test-module'); in app.js i got this error

Cannot find module 'test-module'

Solution

you can provide a path to a local directory that contains a package

{
  "name": "baz",
  "dependencies": {
    "bar": "file:../foo/bar"
  }
}

and perform npm install -s or npm install --save reference

Comments

[shellakkshellu]

Yes i have the same

[shellakkshellu]

Do i need to install anyother packages??

[Soubhik Mondal]

No, you don't need any other packages. I tried exactly your code, and it worked for me. The only issue I got was when the name field was different.

[shellakkshellu]

Now the module not found error is gone but i got another error app.set not a function

[Daniel Conde Marin]

@iambatman: That would be a completely different problem :) I suggest you open another question for that one.

[shellakkshellu]

If i removed the import its gone

[Daniel Conde Marin]

What's on your test-module? Sounds like there is an app.set which is not in the original question

[shellakkshellu]

It contains a index.js file with a function i 've included that in the question

[Soubhik Mondal]

I updated my answer to show all the files in my example. Can you show us the file structure inside node_modules folder?

[Daniel Conde Marin]

Where is app.set? Please update your question with the rest of the code, otherwise will be hard to help.

[shellakkshellu]

my test folder is not in the node_modules folder do i need to add manually in it??

[Soubhik Mondal]

no, you have to npm install or npm i from the root folder. That will automatically generate the node_modules folder with your test-module inside it.

[shellakkshellu]

I have deleted the entire node_modules and removed the test module after that npm install npm ERR! Could not install from "test" as it does not contain a package.json file

[shellakkshellu]

But my package.json doesn't contain the local modules