How to require/import textbelt as a module?

[daluu]

Is the README outdated? Or an additional step needed, as in meant for node.js veterans and not novices?

On cloning repo, you can't just use as a module it seems, to a novice anyway. Following README, it's really vague on the steps other than code to invoke it when everything is set up right. Attempting to follow the instructions "as is" results in something like:

> var text = require('textbelt');
Error: Cannot find module 'textbelt'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at repl:1:12
    at REPLServer.defaultEval (repl.js:262:27)
    at bound (domain.js:287:14)
    at REPLServer.runBound [as eval] (domain.js:300:12)
    at REPLServer.<anonymous> (repl.js:431:12)
    at emitOne (events.js:82:20)

I'm actually more familiar with running the server version.

Now, we could use it with npm install, but it's not clear how best to do that, as I just used same repo and did symlink to itself under node_modules back to parent root and that didn't seem to work, trying to invoke it from a node shell in parent root.

One could however import/require by JS file by relative/absolute path to textbelt repo like:

> var text = require('./index.js');

and then use it the same way as the module import usage.

I did look up npm install of textbelt, but seems that repo for npm is separately maintained though:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/textbelt
https://github.com/ajay-gandhi/textbelt

although I see other variants on npm:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mtextbelt

[reelbeelveel]

@daluu did you ever solve this?

[daluu]

Sorry for delayed response, no, and I've not followed up on it since, I don't really use textbelt myself these days. Would be nice if @typpo would offer some insight here.