I have a PHP project where I used npm to install babel to compile .jsx files. I copied the project by manually cloning the parent project folder. Now when I try to run a babel command like:

$ /Websites/project2/node_modules/.bin/babel /Websites/project2/js/reactcode.jsx --out-dir /Websites/project2/js --source-maps --presets=@babel/preset-react

I get this error:

Error: Cannot find module '../lib/babel' Require stack:

• /Websites/project1/node_modules/.bin/babel at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1048:15) at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:901:27) at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1115:19) at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:130:18) at Object. (/Website/project1/node_modules/.bin/babel:3:1) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1233:14) at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1287:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1091:32) at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:938:12) at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/ run_main:83:12) { code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',

BUT if run babel from the ORIGINAL project. Project2, then it compiles fine, but I do still need the node_modules folder in the Project1 folder.

$ /Websites/project1/node_modules/.bin/babel /Websites/project2/js/reactcode.jsx --out-dir /Websites/project2/js --source-maps --presets=@babel/preset-react

I cannot figure out what I need to do to get the installed .bin/babel to run from the actual project1 folder directly. Is there something I'm missing? I only have a package-lock.json and if I run npm install on that project1 folder it deletes most of what I have in the node_modules folder and babel is gone from .bin. I'm not sure if that is updating babel or what so just reinstalling babel doesn't work if I want to keep the same versions because I think my project-lock.json is outdated or not accurate.

Any thoughts why the require('../lib/babel') bit in the .bin/babel file is failing? Thanks

I have a PHP project where I used npm to install babel to compile .jsx files. I copied the project by manually cloning the parent project folder. Now when I try to run a babel command like:

$ /Websites/project2/node_modules/.bin/babel /Websites/project2/js/reactcode.jsx --out-dir /Websites/project2/js --source-maps --presets=@babel/preset-react

I get this error:

Error: Cannot find module '../lib/babel' Require stack:

• /Websites/project1/node_modules/.bin/babel at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1048:15) at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:901:27) at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1115:19) at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:130:18) at Object. (/Website/project1/node_modules/.bin/babel:3:1) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1233:14) at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1287:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1091:32) at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:938:12) at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/ run_main:83:12) { code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',

BUT if run babel from the ORIGINAL project. Project2, then it compiles fine, but I do still need the node_modules folder in the Project1 folder.

$ /Websites/project1/node_modules/.bin/babel /Websites/project2/js/reactcode.jsx --out-dir /Websites/project2/js --source-maps --presets=@babel/preset-react

I cannot figure out what I need to do to get the installed .bin/babel to run from the actual project1 folder directly. Is there something I'm missing? I only have a package-lock.json and if I run npm install on that project1 folder it deletes most of what I have in the node_modules folder and babel is gone from .bin. I'm not sure if that is updating babel or what so just reinstalling babel doesn't work if I want to keep the same versions because I think my project-lock.json is outdated or not accurate.

Any thoughts why the require('../lib/babel') bit in the .bin/babel file is failing? Thanks

• php
• npm
• babeljs

• Looks like something has part of the path hard-coded, based on seeing project1 in the output of project2. I'd grep for project1 within things in your cloned project. – Chris Haas Commented 2 days ago
• Are you sure that PHP is in any way related to this problem? Can you also share more details about your configuration? – Nico Haase Commented 17 hours ago

1 Answer 1

Try by removing the node_module folder. Then you need to run the following command:

npm run install  

This will add the required package into you new project, i.e. project2