Browserify - cannot find module 'jquery'

Question

I am trying to bundle up my app with browserify and am getting this error:
Cannot find module 'jquery' from '/home/test/node_modules/backbone'

Now questions of this nature have been asked before, but the solutions haven't helped me. Perhaps I have somewhat of a unique case.

In another app, running npm install jquery fixed it. I didn't have it in my package.json and I wasn't requiring jquery in any of my files like what's done here. Everything worked.

In this new app, it doesn't. I tried reinstalling jquery with npm. Nothing. Added it to my dependencies in package.json. Nothing. Included it in my code:

$ = require('jquery'); Backbone.$ = $;

Nothing.

Does anyone have experience with this? What could be going wrong?

Edit:

Diff'd the package.json of the jquery module in the working app and the current one.

Working one:

 "url": "https://github.com/jquery/jquery.git"
 "_from": "jquery@*"

Broken one:

 "url": "git+https://github.com/jquery/jquery.git"
 "_from": "jquery@>=2.1.0 <3.0.0"
 "readme": "ERROR: No README data found!"

If you want more context (line numbers, parent property, and such), I'd be happy to provide that. I just wanted to simplify it - maybe something stands out.

Edit 2:

Changing the "url" param shouldn't changed anything. Replacing the "_from" with the one that works didn't change anything.

Now, I'm wondering why README data is not found. My README files are the same. Granted, I highly doubt that this is the source of the problem.

Edit 3:

My solution was to remove the jquery module and just include jquery.js in my index view. I'm not particularly happy with this, but it works.

I would still like an answer though; curious what was wrong before.

I ran into the same error when I was using npm link to symlink a dependency that I was developing outside of npm. Sounds different than your situation though. — Raine Revere
– Raine Revere, Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 18:55
I ran into this too... Was your symlink dependency requiring Backbone which was requiring jQuery? npm install jquery from the symlink dep fixed the problem... but I would also setup the browserify shim in the dep folder rather than the parent proejct. — ilovett
– ilovett, Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 18:33
@ilovett Thanks for your help. Unfortunately this was a project I was working on during the summer and don't have access to my code anymore. I don't understand what exactly a symlink dependency is, but Backbone (or its Views at least) do require JQuery. — pushkin
– pushkin, Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 21:37

ps-aux · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-17 14:49:18Z

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This should work well with npm install --save jquery. Seems that browserify searches for jquery module in backbone location. Can you find out why is this so ? Don't you have some browserify-shim configuration errors in your package.json ?

If you still have problem you can use browserify-shim to point browserify to proper location by putting this in package.json

  "browserify": {
    "transform": [
      "browserify-shim"
    ]
  },
  "browser": {
    "jquery": "./node_modules/yet/old/jquery/location"
  }

answered Nov 17, 2016 at 14:49

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pushkin Over a year ago

I am no longer working on this project, so I cannot answer your questions nor test your solution. Thanks anyway

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