angular-cli: Cannot find module 'exists-sync'

I ran “npm install” twice:

1. For “ng new” to work: cd /usr/lib/node_modules/angular-cli sudo npm install
2. For “ng serve” to work: cd “your project folder”/node_modules/angular-cli npm install

I hit this too and got around it by running a npm install

Re-installing the CLI (to beta8) and starting a brand new project, I had to do additional npm installs before I was able to run the app.

npm i -D exists-sync npm i -D object-assign npm i -D minimatch npm i -D walk-sync npm i -D through

go to angular-cli installed directory ex: C:\xampp\htdocs\foo1\node_modules\angular-cli run npm i

Hi everyone, apologies for taking so long to address this issue. First of all, thank you for all the comments and proposed temporary solutions.

Reading through the thread allowed me to zone into the real issue - the way ng new ran npm. Turns out it was using a 2.x.x npm internally. This is why when you did npm install things just worked again, your global npm version was more recent.

Simply adding these missing dependencies to the project was not the solution, because the problem was that npm wasn’t correctly installing them in the first place.

I created a PR that updates the local npm to 3.10.2. That should fix all these issues.

Error: Cannot find module ‘exists-sync’ at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Martin\Documents\project\newProject\project\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\models\project.js:11:26) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17)

algo asi ?

en esta carpeta dale npm install y fue … , en la tuya en tu caso \Users\Martin\Documents\project\newProject\project\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules

you have to go inside the directory of angular cli , inside of node and npm install

Upgraded to the latest npm 5.0.3 and had angular cli cannot find module 'rsvp' Going to node_modules/angular/cli and running nmp i fixed it but…

@Rafi993 it seems to be that this is not resolves as of now.

• .beta8 is missing the above dependencies, which must be manually installed to get angular cli running and than be manually installed within every project.
• I do agree that root is necessary for installing global packages. However running npm within a project as sudo seems weird to me. Still I’m anyhow not even understanding why I need root privileges for a subfolder which belongs to my user. Maybe just a problem of my mac.

I guess this is the problem with NPM itself.

ember-cli has a dependency “exists-sync”: “0.0.3” where as angular-cli has the same as devDependency. npm install -g angular-cli doesn’t install devDependencies of angular-cli. But they should get installed inside ember-cli; But it isn’t inside ember node-modules.

Same is the case with object-assign, minimatch, through and walk-sync.

Just hit this problem too. Should the readme be updated to mention npm install as this doesn’t instil confidence for newcomers? The first thing the readme shows is:

ng new PROJECT_NAME
cd PROJECT_NAME
ng serve

and that doesn’t work due to this issue.

Ok, so to all the people who had this problem, please make sure you got the latest & current version of node installed (at this time : node : 6.2.2 and npm : 3.9.5) then install angular-cli by typing npm install -g angular-cli (sudo if you get warns) then go to /node_modules, find the angular-cli folder, and run npm install (sudo may be required) then, start a project ng new projectname go into the new created project folder and type npm i. Peace !

Fresh install right now Windows 10 versions :

• node : 4.4.7
• npm : 2.15.8 Can’t create new project returning error :

module.js:327
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'through'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at new UI (C:\Users\seny\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\ui\index.js:37:19)
    at module.exports (C:\Users\seny\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\cli\index.js:41:12)
    at module.exports (C:\Users\seny\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\cli\index.js:106:10)
    at C:\Users\seny\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\bin\ng:31:5
    at C:\Users\seny\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\resolve\lib\async.js:46:14
    at process (C:\Users\seny\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\resolve\lib\async.js:173:43)

So go in : C:\Users\senayar\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\angular-cli

and run npm i

finally got the same problem running ng serve after this :

Updating npm was the solution : npm install npm -g

npm : 3.10.3

got same problem, npm install --save works for me

I did npm install in the nodemodules and it generated new project but when I typed ng serve --port 4201 --live-reload-port 49153 It shows the same error again

module.js:327
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'exists-sync'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Desktop\ngTest\node_modules\angular-cli\node_modules\ember-cli\lib\models\project.js:11:26)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)

I still get the same error after running npm install 😕

ng init module.js:327 throw err; ^

Error: Cannot find module ‘exists-sync’ at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/srv/fuma/frontend/node_modules/angular-cli/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/models/project.js:11:26) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17)

Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.8 node v4.4.5 npm 2.15.4