将隐藏的文件夹从Windows 10复制到Mac OS X

Question

I am moving my nodejs development from Windows 10 to Mac OS X 10.11.3. I am only vaguely familiar with the operation of my Mac, which I hope to rectify over the coming weeks.

I copied the app folder from Windows to OS X, but it appears that the hidden folders, such as node_modules/.bin , are either hidden on my Mac or have not been copied at all. I opened a Terminal window and ran ls | more ls | more but could not see the .bin folder.

Can someone familiar with this procedure illuminate my dark mind?

Answer 1

The answer from @platinhom is right, though since you're moving from an OS to an other there are a lot of chances that the modules in your node_modules directory not only contains just js files, but also binaries (which have to be compiled specifically for your OS - meaning the ones from windows won't work on Mac OS).

Since you have a node_module/.bin folder this is very most likely.

What you should do is, at the root of your project (where there should be a package.json - and only if there is a package.json ):

rm -rf ./node_modules
npm install

This will reinstall the modules declared in the package.json from the npm registry.