I have been running a small service on Google Compute Engine (Ubuntu) that requires
the google-cloud npm module but I kept hitting an error with grpc_node.node
not being found.
Error: Cannot find module '/home/paul_kinlan/web-push-rocks/frontend/node_modules/google-cloud/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extens
ion_binary/grpc_node.node'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
at Function._load (/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/pmx/lib/transaction.js:62:21)
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/paul_kinlan/web-push-rocks/frontend/node_modules/google-cloud/node_modules/grpc/src/node/src/gr
pc_extension.js:38:15)
at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
It was incredibly frustrating as I have not seen any recognition of the issues that many people are facing.
The solution that I found (well Surma on our team found) was to force a rebuild of the module from source as follows:
npm install
npm rebuild --build-from-source google-cloud
Stupid node. Stupid Cloud platform. :)
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