Example is broken about example-adapter

[benfrancis]

Hi @jadonk, welcome.

Is anyone using WebThings anymore? I mean, this is a pretty fundamental building block and it won't build today.

Yes they are. WebThings is maintained by a community of volunteers, please try to be respectful.

What are the steps to reproduce this error? What commands did you run?

I haven't personally used this example add-on before, but the linked blog post (which is now quite old) suggests cloning the repository into the add-ons directory of the gateway and restarting the gateway process so the gateway starts the add-on. Note that the latest version of WebThings Gateway still uses Node.js 10 and ships with a specific version of the gateway-addon-node package which is needed to run add-ons. If you're trying to run the add-on on its own that probably isn't going to work.

Also, the error you have shared looks like a problem with sqlite3, but that's not a dependency of this repository. It's possible the problem is not with this example, but some other code.

Please let us know the steps to reproduce this error so we can help further.

Edit: FWIW npm install and npm build ran for me without errors using Node.js 10, if they are the commands you were trying to run.