after updating can no longer call commands on sbot/ssb-server without an error

[frankiebee]

after updating can no longer call comands on sbot/ssb-server without an error
error: Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined

node -v
v10.11.0
npm -v
6.4.1

repro:

• start patchbay or ssb-server
• open new tab in terminal
• > ssb-server --help || sbot --help

[frankiebee]

oooh was help removed?

[frankiebee]

on that note to how do i install plugins now?

[frankiebee]

new node version also means node_modules in .ssb needed to be rebubilt
sense a rebuild failed
ive just decided to reinstall plugins
but well i'm hitting a idk how to do that anymore sense it seems thats no longer an option from sbot

[frankiebee]

semi solution / frankie is insane 😅

i removed node modules and turned off all my plugins and am not starting sbot outside of patchbay

ux issue: always takes me about an hour or 2 to update sbot i think last time i just nuked everything and resynced my whole feed but at that time i knew how to install plugins

this most likely isnt a problem with sbot and is more around node but i'm sure some of this could be avoided

[dominictarr]

to rebuild plugins: cd ~/.ssb && npm rebuild

sbot plugins.install <plugin_name> still works.
but in my opinion, we should probably remove npm from sbot... you can also install a plugin manually by doing cd ~/.ssb && npm install <plugin> and then editing ~/.ssb/config so that "plugins": {"<module_name>": true},

[frankiebee]

so @dominictarr rebuild failed and sbot dosent seem to know plugins.install

i get:

Command not found: plugins.install
Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined

[dominictarr]

weird... what version of ssb-server did you install? I'm using 14.1.7
oh what it might be: if you are running patchbay's sbot, they might not have plugins.
check ~/.ssb/manifest.json and see if it has a plugins section.

[frankiebee]

oh what it might be: if you are running patchbay's sbot, they might not have plugins.

yeah okay running my outside of patchbay works for plugins

but --help is no longer an option in the update?

[frankiebee]

sbot version
"19.1.0"

[dominictarr]

Hmm, oh that is the ssb-db version, not the ssb-server version... oh now I see what happened. We moved the code that was in ssb-server into ssb-db so now it reports that version!

that should probably the versions of all the plugins, anyway!

[dominictarr]

@frankiebee how did you do install ssb-server, did you do npm install ssb-server -g or is it the one that's inside of patchbay?

[dominictarr]

or did you git clone it then install?

[frankiebee]

npm install ssb-server -g

[frankiebee]

should i be git cloneing it?

[dominictarr]

my hunch is that you are hitting the sbot that is bundled inside of patchbay, that doesn't use plugins which would explain why you are not getting any.

[dominictarr]

we really should have a better way to detect what plugins are running.

[frankiebee]

when i'm only using my sbot and not running patch bay i still dont get the --help so i dont know my options here

[dominictarr]

issue for reinstating help text and version numbers: #648

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?