The global variable 'require' is not declared

[su9204]

var http = require('http');

The IDE (netbeans 8.0 beta) will show a warning that "The global variable 'require' is not declared". Any solutions? Thank you!

[timboudreau]

There may be some stuff possible, but really it needs some infrastructure on the NetBeans side to make that work. Basically, Node, under the hood, generates a
function (require, module, exports, ...)
and wraps that around each Node module when it loads them.

There needs to be a way to tell NetBeans that (and faking out the InputStream from the file will screw up everything that needs file offsets - the Javascript parser needs to be told to do that).

I'll get in touch with the guy doing Javascript support for NetBeans and see if he has any suggestions - but what I'm saying is, I'm not sure there is much that a plugin can do without very specific support from the Javascript parser in the IDE.

[su9204]

May be try something like using the typestub
https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped

Also What I noticed is if all statements involved require('...') is on the right hand of an assignment (instead simply require('something').doSomething()), it does not show warning.

[timboudreau]

Closing as a duplicate of #2 - if we get code completion working, this will fall out of it.