Setting up Zen Environment and Run CoderDojo

Written on: December 02, 2016

This time, FOSSASIA’s task was to set up the zen environment and run CodeDojo platform locally. The task was simple and had clear instructions in the README.md file in their github repository.

Before setting up the environment it is required for you to have:

1. NodeJS
2. PostgreSQL
3. Grunt

Links on those are also provided on the README file.

Once you are done setting up you should be able to visit localhost:8000 and have CoderDojo running, just like the above picture.

Troubleshooting

After initializing, when I tried running ./localdev.js run zen I encountered an error:

events.js:160
     throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
     ^

Error: spawn gulp ENOENT
   at exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
   at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:193:32)
   at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:359:16)
   at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
   at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
   at Module.runMain (module.js:606:11)
   at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
   at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
   at bootstrap_node.js:509:3

However through a few google search I found this, and trying some of its solution and managed to remove the error.

npm cache clean gulp-imagemin
rm -rf node_modules/gulp-imagemin
npm install gulp-imagemin

npm install -g gulp bower && npm install && bower install