Error when using yeoman to generate angular app: unhandled Template render error

Question

I want to use yeoman to generate an angular app structure, but an error stopped me.

yo-->Angular Bootstrap-->more options-->

error occurs:

Possibly unhandled Template render error: (unknown path) [Line 3, Column 90]
  expected variable end
    at Object.exports.withPrettyErrors (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/nunjucks/src/lib.js:33:17)
    at Obj.extend.render (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/nunjucks/src/environment.js:344:20)
    at Obj.extend.renderString (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/nunjucks/src/environment.js:231:21)
    at Generator.engine [as _engine] (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/app/modules/nunjucks-engine.js:17:14)
    at Generator.engine (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/yeoman-generator/lib/actions/actions.js:314:10)
    at Generator.template (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/yeoman-generator/lib/actions/actions.js:289:15)
    at setupAppFiles (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/app/index.js:209:10)
    at tryCatch1 (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:45:21)
    at Promise$_callHandler [as _callHandler] (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:658:13)
    at Promise$_settlePromiseFromHandler [as _settlePromiseFromHandler] (/usr/lib/node_modules/generator-angular-bootstrap/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:672:18)

So, anyone can help me?

Nystrom

I am also having this same issue. – Nahshon

Are you on a mac. If so, I might at least have tracked down the source of the issue. – Nahshon

In file included from ../fsevents.cc:86: ../src/constants.cc:10:66: warning: template argument uses unnamed type [-Wunnamed-type-template-args] object->Set(NanNew<v8::String>("kFSEventStreamEventFlagNone"), NanNew<v8::Integer>(kFSEventStreamEventFlagNone)); – Nahshon

The above appears to come from the nunjucks module...whatever that is. :) – Nahshon

When then seems to be an issue coming from here....the maintainer of that code base closed the issue as fixed...but as we can see...it is not. :) github.com/pipobscure/fsevents/issues/33 – Nahshon

My os is Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. – Nystrom

github.com/mgcrea/generator-angular-bootstrap/issues/18 – Grosz

Answer 1

I've "solved" by downgrading the version from 0.5.1 to 0.4.3:

$ sudo npm uninstall -g generator-angular-bootstrap
$ sudo npm install -g [email protected]
$ yo angular-bootstrap

This error seems to be related to nunjucks -- which was introduced in version 0.5.0 (I've experienced the error in 0.5.0 and 0.5.1); and probably related to something else I couldn't identify quickly.

Floret

I'd give this a green check mark if I could. Thanks! – Incitement

That worked! There seems to be more and more confusion and discrepancy between packages within the yeoman generator sphere; one now discover "problems" like the above all the time. The whole point was to automatize such trivial tasks, but now we have the huge task to figure out and recover from various grunt / yeoman / generator failures instead :( – Simplehearted

Answer 2

delete /usr/lib/node_modules and install all dependencies again following this tutorial: http://yeoman.io/codelab/setup.html

After that you could run "yo angular" and choose Bootstrap as one of dependecies.

Eelworm

Thank you for the answer. Unfortunately this does not work. 'yo angular' has always worked just fine. the issue is when trying to run 'yo angular-bootstrap' which apparently has a different type of scaffolding mechanism. – Nahshon

Answer 3

I dont know you got the answer, but you can probably go with default project generation, which has bootstrap itself.

Northwest

Thank you for the answer. Unfortunately this does not work. 'yo angular' has always worked just fine. the issue is when trying to run 'yo angular-bootstrap' which apparently has a different type of scaffolding mechanism. And the reason for wanting to use this scaffold is it provides an option to support angular on IE<9. – Nahshon