missing config file docu

[freshfx]

Hi,

I have a problem on generating a template with the cli using custom components.

I initialized a new component with the cli command mjml --init-component <name>.
This command will create a new folder with the component in ES6 style. I used babel to generate an ES5 javascript and move the file to ./components/image-link.
Now i want to generate a template using the new component. I created a .mjmlconfig file in my project root path with this content

{
  "packages": [
    "./components/image-link.js"
  ]
}

I always get this error message

Warning: .mjmlconfig file ./components/image-link.js has an error : Error: Cannot find module './components/image-link.js'

Can you please tell me the right way to use custom components with the cli. (A short example/how-to would be awesome)

[iRyusa]

Hello @freshfx ,

Can you provide results of this commands : pwd, ls -l, node -v and the code inside image-link.js

[freshfx]

i'm using Node v6.2.1

here is the content of the image-link.js
https://gist.github.com/freshfx/1de3853390fcf3bbe72dcd057c80b1ea

the project structure

project
|-- .babelrc
|-- .mjmlconfig
|-- .nvmrc
|-- package.json
|-- bin
|-- `-- generate
|-- components
|   `-- image-link.js
|-- mails
|   `-- test.mjml
`-- dist

in my package.json is a start script which execute the ./bin/generate script.
And this script does mjml -r ./mails/test.mjml -o ./dist/test.html
And thats the point i get the error.

[iRyusa]

Can you try to set the full path instead of relative to see if it works ?

[freshfx]

it works with full path. but it would be much nicer, if the path can be relative too.

[iRyusa]

It might be a working directory issue from the process mjml mhh i'll add some debug information for further investigation

[freshfx]

awesome. thanks.

[iRyusa]

2.3 has been released, it should gives you more informations when it happens

[alex-e-leon]

@iRyusa I'm having the same issue on v2.3
The error message I'm getting is

Warning: .mjmlconfig file ./new-component/src/index.js opened from ~/mjml-dir has an error : Error: Cannot find module './new-component/src/index.js'

Replacing the path in .mjmlconfig with an absolute path fixes the issue for me

[iRyusa]

Does the working directory new-component is inside mjml-dir ?

I wonder if this is an issue on the npm package but not on the dev installed version

[alex-e-leon]

@iRyusa Yeap, it could be an issue with the published version. new-component is inside mjml-dir

[vbraun]

I have the same issue. Need to use

 NODE_PATH=. mjml mails/test.mjml

to pick up the module.

[iRyusa]

Hello there,

MJML 3 come with a refactor of .mjmlconfig it should now parse absolute path correctly ! Feel free to test it and give us some feedback 👍