I'm trying out this new thing from Facebook called Rome
As it is still experimental, you need to first build this tool from source. I followed these steps without any issues.
In a nutshell, what I did was:
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/facebookexperimental/rome.git
cd rome
./scripts/build-release dist
I then installed it with:
cd /tmp
mkdir try-rome
cd try-rome/
npm install ../rome/dist/
That was all fine. I then created this file index.js with the following content:
alert("wat?")
And put an empty rome.json file at the root as per the "Getting Started" instructions at time of writing:
Rome requires a project configuration in order to operate. This can take three possible forms.
- A rome.json file
- A rome.rjson file (What is RJSON? See #13)
- A rome field on package.json
This can just be an empty file. It's required in order for Rome to determine all the files in a project
And ran this command:
./node_modules/.bin/rome compile index.js
Which failed with the following error:
I know this file isn't empty so why does Rome think it is?
In the documentation I saw this line:
$ echo '{}' >rome.json
It seems like the rome.json file should have at least an empty json {}