Hi, I have been trying to install external modules like ‘moment’, ‘lodash’ locally on my n8n dashboard. I have installed it in my n8n/node_modules folder. When I try to ‘require’ it in my function node it gives me error as “cannot find module ‘lodash’”. I have followed the steps mentioned at https:…

@chinmay_chavan working on a node that format dates so that you do not have to import any packages. Is that the use case you are looking for?

No not really, that was just trial and error. For my use case I want to import built.io package from npmjs.com .

@chinmay_chavan did play around with it two days ago and now today again. Sadly does now work like expected. It works fine in the dev-environment but not when installed regularly. Hope I can figure out the problem soon.

Ok did figure out the issue. I did actually already find it two days ago but never worked in my tests anyway (which confused me a lot). I just found out why. I always changed the code in the Function-Node but my test workflow had the FunctionItem-Node. Totally stupid!!! Hours waisted for nothing. An…

Ok released now n8n@0.50.1 with the fix. Just tested like that and it works now fine: # Go in folder you want to install n8n in and install n8n with the modules you need npm install n8n moment # Allow access to the modules export NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL=moment # Start n8n node node_modules/.b…

[image] jan: npm install n8n moment Could you suggest a way I can make this work with the Docker container, please? Or, will this only work with standalone installs?

Haha! We’ve all been there mate! Thank you for taking out the time to work on this and making it work! :slight_smile: Kudos!

It is theoretically also possible with the docker image but much more messy as you have to mount each module you need separate. For “sugar-date” that would for example additionally be “sugar-core” as “sugar-'date” depends on it. The more complex the module you need the more modules that would be. So…

That worked perfectly! Thanks a lot, @jan . :slight_smile: Will stick to the Docker container for now and then move on to a native install if I end up needing lots of such modules.

[HELP] Not been able to import external modules

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chinmay_chavan February 4, 2020, 4:51am 11

I’ll try this out and get back here, Thanks once again!

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[HELP] Not been able to import external modules

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