琐碎的要求引发错误

Question

I'm trying to work with a popular dependency injection library, electrolyte , but even a trivial script requiring it throws an error. I can't find any discussion or issues related to my error, but since I'm new to node, I'd like to check that I'm not doing something obviously wrong before appealing to the author.

Install electrolyte:

npm install electrolyte

Run this 1-line app, test.js , with node:

var di = require("electrolyte");

Get this error:

util.js:555
  ctor.prototype = Object.create(superCtor.prototype, {
                      ^
TypeError: Object prototype may only be an Object or null
    at Function.create (native)
    at Object.exports.inherits (util.js:555:27)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vagrant/tmp/node_modules/electrolyte/lib/container.js:42:6)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/vagrant/tmp/node_modules/electrolyte/lib/index.js:1:79)

I've tried this in two environments (node on ubuntu from packages, mac from brew) with identical results. I can install and require other libraries without issue. Versions of node and electrolyte appear to be up to date.

Answer 1

Looks like the versions of node I had through brew and through debian packages were pretty old. Following the installation guide to add node's own debian repository corrected the problem.