charlottegore/cassette-express

An asset manager for your client side javascript files, for use in Express.JS

cassette-express's Issues

Windows paths not handled correctly

Thanks for creating this package! I'm hoping to use it on a production site sometime soon. However, there's a blocking issue for us which is that it doesn't work when using node on Windows, and it looks like the problems are related to file paths. Starting with just a clone of the repo and changing to the Example directory, I ran npm install and then node app.js. This immediately throws the following error:

fs.js:400
  return binding.readdir(pathModule._makeLong(path));
Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'D:\node_modules'
    at Object.readdirSync (fs.js:400:18)
    at base.scanDirectory (D:\Dev\Cassette-Express\EXAMPLE\node_modules\cassette-express\lib\manifest.js:32:18)
    at base.reset (D:\Dev\Cassette-Express\EXAMPLE\node_modules\cassette-express\lib\manifest.js:122:8)
    at base.init (D:\Dev\Cassette-Express\EXAMPLE\node_modules\cassette-express\lib\manifest.js:24:8)

The problem stems from the call this.scanDirectory( node );on line 119 of manifest.js. The call to path.relative on the preceding line results in a path like ..\..\..\..\..\node_modules in my case (I have the repo located at D:\dev\cassette-express on my system). So that resolves to D:\node_modules which doesn't exist.

I'm not sure exactly why it's trying to scan the node_modules folder, but if I take that line out the app will run. But then another path problem becomes apparent. If I browse to localhost:3000 the page loads but none of the scripts get loaded. And that's because if you look at the source, it's rendering script tags with a src attribute like this:

src="\javascripts\lib\underscore.js"

Notice that the src is using \ instead of / which is preventing the browser from loading them.

If I can figure out what exactly needs changed in the source to fix these issues, I'll be happy to issue a pull request. Not sure how long it will take me to figure out what's going on though. :-)