NPM install fails about ar3play-server

[Dahlgren]

This is most probably related to #1. It should be possible to start the application with node main.js anyway, otherwise you can remove line 194 and 195 from lib/webserver.ts and run npm install again. These are the troublesome lines

    else
        return res.send(new restify.MethodNotAllowedError());

[Fusselwurm]

@Dahlgren @alexcroox it seems the guys at DefinitelyTyped are taking their time with DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#4015 , so fixed it on our side.

[alexcroox]

Excuse my ignorance, I've made several node applications before but I've never used this .ts structure before. How do I start the application? node main.ts errors out and node main.js as per your instructions above fails because main.js doesn't exist. Is there a build step I'm missing?

[Fusselwurm]

@alexcroox It's Typescript, a Javascript derivative that knows strict typing - basically Microsoft's stab at Ecmascript 6. I'm using it because typed callbacks are the best thing that has happened to my productivity in a long time ;)

Anyhow - Typescript compiles to Javascript.

The install script does that. Should do, that is. After npm inst , there should be a main.js that you can start.

There's two steps here that I put into that package.json#scripts/install line:

First ./node_modules/tsd/build/cli.js reinstall --save --override installs the "typings", these are basically header files / interface declarations for many of the used js libraries, so the Typescript compiler knows what to expect, and how to warn me if I use things wrongly.

Secondly, node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc --module commonjs ./*.ts */*.ts compiles all Typescript files into their Javascript equivalents.

Unfortunately, the error message tells us nothing about at which step the problem lies.

Could you try to do the following on a clean checkout:

• remove the scripts/install line from package.json
• run npm install
• then, run ./node_modules/tsd/build/cli.js reinstall --save --override
• if the former worked, run node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc --module commonjs ./*.ts */*.ts

and tell me where it dies, and what the error output is?

[alexcroox]

I managed to get it installed with tsc main.ts just battling with getting Redis installed on Windows before I can continue (previously only ever installed on unix based systems).

[Dahlgren]

the npm install command is currently broken on Windows, see #3

[Fusselwurm]

If there's anything wrong with/on Windows, I wont be able to help you - but I'll appreciate any fixes you can come up with ;)

Btw, Visual Studio should have the best Typescript support you can find :)