Support pkg (executable nodejs app)

[Mihailoff]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg can't handle pathed aesprim module with error

Error: Cannot find module 'esprima'

At the moment I don't use @ literal in json paths so the dirty hack to make it work would be replacing https://github.com/dchester/jsonpath/blob/master/lib/aesprim.js with

module.exports = require('esprima')

Any better ideas?

[danziamo]

I have almost same error.

I require library json-schema-faker which uses jsonpath

i have error Error: Cannot find module 'esprima' when i try to bundle with pkg.

[Latentimagedesign]

Exact same issue. Any work-arounds?

Thanks for posting the issue

[edvald]

I found a pretty good workaround for my use case. Instead of require("jsonpath") use require("jsonpath/jsonpath.min"). The latter is basically the browserified version, and that one doesn't use the monkey-patching trickery that breaks the Pkg build. Hope that's useful!

[Latentimagedesign]

@edvald - thanks so much - this is great. Really appreciate you posting a solution.

[Yantrio]

This isn't much of a solution, if jsonpath is a sub-dependency it still breaks things. Does anyone have any other workarounds?

[afaya-partssource]

Is there any workaround for cases where it's a subdependency?

[dimitropoulos]

to anyone else hitting this, switching to jsonpath-plus is a viable workaroud/solution to this because it doesn't have this problem.