My Custom Node Development

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Followed below node development walk through

I am using Linux system, I am having node 18.20.2 and NPM version 10.5.0. After I followed the steps and npm link command for my package its fine but the example node does not show up.

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After that came to know Run your node locally | n8n Docs and followed the steps created custom folder manually then npm link n8n-nodes-NAME.

Then I ran n8n, I got the below message.

shankar@shankar-Lenovo-ideapad-320-15IKB:/var/www/html/n8n-nodes-encharge$ n8n
User settings loaded from: /home/shankar/.n8n/config
Initializing n8n process
Error loading node “ExampleNode” from: “/home/shankar/.n8n/custom/node_modules/n8n-nodes-encharge/dist/nodes/ExampleNode/ExampleNode.node.js” - Cannot find module ‘…/…/node_modules/n8n-workflow/dist’
Require stack:

  • /var/www/html/n8n-nodes-encharge/dist/nodes/ExampleNode/ExampleNode.node.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/ClassLoader.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/commands/BaseCommand.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/module-loader.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/help/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/flags.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/styled/table.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/styled/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/index.js
    node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1143
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module ‘…/…/node_modules/n8n-workflow/dist’
Require stack:

  • /var/www/html/n8n-nodes-encharge/dist/nodes/ExampleNode/ExampleNode.node.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/ClassLoader.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/commands/BaseCommand.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/module-loader.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/help/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/flags.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/styled/table.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/styled/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/index.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1140:15)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1231:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:177:18)
    at Object. (/var/www/html/n8n-nodes-encharge/nodes/ExampleNode/ExampleNode.node.ts:1:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1364:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1422:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1203:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1019:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1231:19)
    Error: Exiting due to an error.
    Error: Cannot find module ‘…/…/node_modules/n8n-workflow/dist’
    Require stack:
  • /var/www/html/n8n-nodes-encharge/dist/nodes/ExampleNode/ExampleNode.node.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/ClassLoader.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/commands/BaseCommand.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/module-loader.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/help/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/flags.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/styled/table.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/styled/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/cli-ux/index.js
  • /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@oclif/core/lib/index.js

I checked my VSCODE editor the reference for the import statement auto adjusted based on the folder structure. See below the references.

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The issue got resolved by go through this post, Cant see node in my local instance - #9 by Jon

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