The sidebar in section 4.3 discusses installing Node.js; however, it does not explicitly recommend a minimum release of Node.js to use for the examples to work. Assuming that somebody is installing Node.js for the first time, there is a good chance that they will install a 6.x release and the examples will work. However, a reader could have an older version of Node.js installed and the nodecc example could throw errors.

Hi Ed,

thanks for your feedback.

Our examples are built based on nodejs version 8.

There is a small hint at the beginning of each section/chapter. But Michael and I discussed an approach to clarify the requirement recently.

The sidebar will include the following with the next version: All examples in this book are tested with Node.js version 8.

Andreas

Hi Ed,

I added the version hint to the book. I'm not sure when it will be updated in the MEAP but it will be in the final book.

Thanks
Michael

Just tried to run the S3 Bucket gallery
Received following Error using
node -version
7.2.1

Error occurs opening Webpage on Port 8080
richa@xps8900 MINGW64 ~/gallery
$ node server.js richardm
Server started. Open http://localhost:8080 with browser.
buffer.js:740
throw new Error('Buffer.write(string, encoding, offset[, length]) ' +
^

Error: Buffer.write(string, encoding, offset[, length]) is no longer supported
at Buffer.write (buffer.js:740:11)
at Parser.scanText (C:\Users\richa\gallery\node_modules\mu2\lib\mu\parser.js:67:14)
at Parser.tokenize (C:\Users\richa\gallery\node_modules\mu2\lib\mu\parser.js:32:3
at Object.exports.parse (C:\Users\richa\gallery\node_modules\mu2\lib\mu\parser.js:11:17)
at C:\Users\richa\gallery\node_modules\mu2\lib\mu.js:40:21
at tryToString (fs.js:425:3)
at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:412:12)

Hi Richard,

are you following the 1st or 2nd edition of our book. If you are reading the 2nd edition of our book please use the source code located at https://github.com/awsinAction/code2. Please note, that we have tested all examples from the 2nd edition of our book with Node.js version 8.

Andreas

Hi Andreas
Version 2 MEAP of your Book
I'm using version 7 of NODE, didn't see the requirement for NODE version 8.
Thanks
Richard

We have added/improved the hint pointing out that our examples are tested with Node.js 8. But the improvement is not yet published (MEAP). Is the example working on your machine now?