Fail to launch due to missing require ; embedding instructions are somehow incomplete

[joshudson]

I was able to get it to build after figuring out how to use npm -g as nonroot. It builds with nothing that looks like an error. Trying to launch it results in it not launching; the javascript console lists call to undefined function require as the reason.

I know what require is. I don't know what is missing that it would actually work. I'm used to require being provided by the project compiler and existing top-level in the script file being included.