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Does npx look for globally installed packages?

I am using Node.js 10.1.0 and npm 6.0.0. I have installed a package with npm install -g example-package, Will npx look for it? What about npx -p example-package, does it only look on npm registry? Answer NPX included in NPM 5.2 which looks in your local/node_modules folder to avoid version mismatch with the g…

Cannot connect to socket io server

I have bot socket IO client and server running. I want to have client communicate with server. Server initialization Client initialization Socket IO debug output I enabled debug, but socket IO debug output is not very useful anyway: Notice that the listener for connection that I added triggers, but socket IO …

Get fee amount from Braintree Transaction.search()

Is it possible to get the Braintree fee amount while searching for transactions using Transaction.search() method? I specifically use Braintree Node.js SDK API, so when I call the method: My console.log(result[0]) shows pretty big (160 lines of code) single transaction object, where transaction.serviceFeeAmou…

Unable to run Electron Quick Start in WSL

Hi I’m running Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS on Windows Subsystem Linux. I’m trying to run the Quick Start first app as listed in this section here https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/first-app however, I keep getting the same error no matter if I clone the repository, write it myself, or delete and reinsta…

Relationship between event loop,libuv and v8 engine

I am learning through the architecture of Node.js. I have following questions. Is event loop a part of libuv or v8? Is event queue a part of event loop? are event queue generated by libuv or v8 engine or event loop itself? What is the connection between libuv and v8 engine? If event loop is single threaded, d…

Decorator to return a 404 in a Nest controller

I’m working on a backend using NestJS, (which is amazing btw). I have a ‘standard get a single instance of an entity situation’ similar to this example below. This is incredibly simple and works – however, if the user does not exist, the service returns undefined and the controller ret…