Command failed with ENOENT: ipfs/src/cli/bin.js daemon... when spawing a js node from a factory

[sebastiendan]

Hi,

#458 introduced changes on how the js/go bin are resolved, but Usage on README was not updated, so took me a while before understanding I have to specify the bin path, the same way it's done in /examples.

When testing with:

this.node = await factory.spawn({
  type: 'js',
  ipfsBin: require.resolve('ipfs/src/cli/bin.js'),
})

I get the following error:

Command failed with ENOENT: ipfs/src/cli/bin.js daemon --enable-preload false
spawn ipfs/src/cli/bin.js ENOENT 


    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:264:19)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:456:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:81:21)

[sebastiendan]

Besides the documentation issue, It seems the problem is coming from my environment: passing the path manually works.

this.node = await factory.spawn({
      type: 'js',
      ipfsBin: join(
        __dirname,
        '..',
        '..',
        '..',
        'node_modules/ipfs/src/cli/bin.js'
      ),
    })

My context is a NestJS (so NodeJS) app inside an Nx workspace.
That's my first project with Nx so I'll investigate for this part.

For now require.resolve just returns whatever string that is passed to it...

[hugomrdias]

readme docs and types were improved to explain this better.