Javascript

Feb

2018

How to fix Angular ‘Cannot find control with unspecified name attribute’

Problem:

In your Angular2/4/5 application you see this error message:

Cannot find control with unspecified name attribute

Solution:

Look for a statement in the HTML angular template like this:

[formControl]="myCtrl"

The error message means that myCtrl can’t be found. Check if this variable is present in your class – it needs be a FormControl which you can import from @angular/forms:

import { FormControl } from '@angular/forms';

In my case, changing it to

[formControl]="myControl"

fixed the issue

Feb

2018

How to fix Angular4/5/6 ‘No provider for ControlContainer’

Problem:

In your Angular2/4/5 application you’re getting the following error message:

No provider for ControlContainer ("<div class="recall-container mat-elevation-z8">

Solution:

You have not added the @angular/forms FormsModule to your module’s import list.

Go to your app.module.ts and add this line to the imports:

import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

and look for a line like this in your module definition:

imports: [ /* several import modules may be listed here */ ],

and add FormsModule like this (if there are already imports, add FormsModule to the list):

imports: [ FormsModule ],

Aug

2017

Solving npm Usage of the –dev option is deprecated. Use –only=dev instead.

Problem:

You want to install development dependencies for a NodeJS package using

npm install --dev

but you get this error message:

npm WARN install Usage of the `--dev` option is deprecated. Use `--only=dev` instead.

Solution:

You can use

npm install # Install normal (not development) dependencies
npm install --only=dev # Install only development dependencies

instead. Note that npm install --only=dev will only install development dependencies, so in most cases you want to run both commands.

Aug

2017

Using nodemon without a global installation

Problem:

You want to use nodemon in order to automatically reload your NodeJS server, however you don’t want to require a global installation (npm install -g nodemon) but instead install it locally into the node_modules directory:

Solution:

First, install nodemon as dependency (

npm install --save-dev nodemon

We installed it as development dependency for this example, but it will work just as well if you install it as a normal dependency using --save instead of --save-dev.

After that, add a script entry in package.json:

"scripts": {
  "devserver": "./node_modules/nodemon/bin/nodemon.js index.js"
}, /* rest of package.json */

Replace index.js with the name of the file you want to run using nodemon.

Now you can start the development server using

npm run devserver

Aug

2017

How to use query string parameters in NodeJS request

Problem:

You’re using the request library in order to make a HTTP GET request:

const request = require("request")

request.get("http://localhost:8000", function(err, response, body) {
    console.log(err, body);
})

Now you’re trying to add query parameters to the request. For this example, we’ll assume that you want to add one parameter: foo=bar

Solution:

You can use the qs parameter like this:

const request = require("request")

request.get({url: "http://localhost:8000", qs: {"foo": "bar"}}, function(err, response, body) {
    console.log(err, body);
})

Note that just adding a qs parameter to request.get won’t work, you need to have a dictionary as first argument that contains at least {"url": <your URL>, "qs": {<one or multiple query parameters>}}

Credits to Daniel at StackOverflow

May

2017

Disabling SSL certificate checking in unirest (NodeJS)

Problem:

You want to make a HTTP request with unirest like this:

const unirest = require('unirest');
unirest.get("https://mydomain.net").end(console.log)

but you encounter the following error:

{ error: 
   { Error: unable to verify the first certificate
       at TLSSocket.<anonymous> (_tls_wrap.js:1088:38)
       at emitNone (events.js:86:13)
       at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:188:7)
       at TLSSocket._finishInit (_tls_wrap.js:610:8)
       at TLSWrap.ssl.onhandshakedone (_tls_wrap.js:440:38) code: 'UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE' } }

Solution:

You can work around this problem by using strictSSL(false) like this:

const unirest = require('unirest');

unirest.get("https://mydomain.net")
.strictSSL(false)
.end(console.log)

Note however that this might have negative effects on the security of your application as this request will be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Oct

2012

How to fix npm “Cannot find module ‘graceful-fs'” error

Problem:

When running any npm command, you get a stacktrace similar to the following:

Error: Cannot find module 'graceful-fs'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
at require (module.js:378:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/ini.js:32:10)
   at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)

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Oct

2012

How to fix node-waf “ImportError: No module named Scripting” on Linux

Issue:

When executing node-waf, you get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/node-waf", line 14, in <module>
import Scripting
ImportError: No module named Scripting

This also prevents node modules with native components to be built.

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Sep

2012

How to get filesize in Node.js

To determine the size of a file in NodeJS (e.g. to get the size of myfile.txt) use fs.stat() or fs.statSync() like this:

const fs = require("fs"); //Load the filesystem module
const stats = fs.statSync("myfile.txt");
const fileSizeInBytes = stats.size;
//Convert the file size to megabytes (optional)
const fileSizeInMegabytes = fileSizeInBytes / 1000000.0;

Another option is to use the following function:

function getFilesizeInBytes(filename) {
    const stats = fs.statSync(filename);
    const fileSizeInBytes = stats.size;
    return fileSizeInBytes;
}

Javascript

How to fix Angular ‘Cannot find control with unspecified name attribute’

Problem:

Solution:

How to fix Angular4/5/6 ‘No provider for ControlContainer’

Problem:

Solution:

Solving npm Usage of the –dev option is deprecated. Use –only=dev instead.

Problem:

Solution:

Using nodemon without a global installation

Problem:

Solution:

How to use query string parameters in NodeJS request

Problem:

Solution:

Disabling SSL certificate checking in unirest (NodeJS)

Problem:

Solution:

How to fix npm “Cannot find module ‘graceful-fs'” error

Problem:

How to fix node-waf “ImportError: No module named Scripting” on Linux

Issue:

How to get filesize in Node.js

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