aurelia-dialog error with the release version and CLI

Question

I'm facing a problem when using the new aurelai release :

• I created a new app using : au new myApp
• I installed aurelia-dialog via npm
• When I import aurelia-dialog and try to run the app using

au run --watch

I get htis error :

[Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\\src\\ai-dialog.js']

Any idea ?

Answer 1

The reason this is happening is because the package is a CommonJS package.

See: http://aurelia.io/hub.html#/doc/article/aurelia/framework/latest/the-aurelia-cli/10

Edit your aurelia_project/aurelia.json file from

"dependencies": [
    "aurelia-dialog"
]

to

"dependencies": [
    {
        "name": "aurelia-dialog",
        "path": "../node_modules/aurelia-dialog/dist/amd",
        "main": "aurelia-dialog"
    }
]

and that should solve your problem.

Answer 2

I got into the same issue. I have installed the aurelia dialog using below npm command

npm install aurelia-dialog --save 

then just adding below dependencies to aurelia.json , resolved the issue

  {
    "name": "aurelia-dialog",
    "path": "../node_modules/aurelia-dialog/dist/amd",
    "main": "aurelia-dialog"
  }

Answer 3

Things have changed a little bit since the release of aurelia-dialog 2.0.0.

The block you need to add in the aurelia.json dependencies definition is now the following one:

"dependencies": [
    {
        "name": "aurelia-dialog",
        "path": "../node_modules/aurelia-dialog/dist/amd",
        "main": "aurelia-dialog",
        "resources": ["**/*.js"]
    }
]