Several issues when running command 'node server.js'

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Hello,

I have tried to use the code files in Fabric-IPFS-project/dataCompressWithFabricAndIPFS-master/src and found problems as follows. First of all, I am new to node, npm, etc. I am reading into the documents of node, npm, while I am working with your code files.

1. I got errors on installing ipfs-api. After learning that ipfs-api has been deprecated and is replaced by ipfs-http-client, I switched to install ipfs-http-client and got a successful installation. Then, I learned that I have use the following lines in place of your original code lines in server.js.

new code lines:
import { create } from 'ipfs-http-client'
const ipfsClient = create()
const ipfs = create('http://localhost:5001');

your original code lines:
const ipfsAPI = require('ipfs-api');
const ipfs = ipfsAPI('localhost', '5001', {protocol: 'http'});

When I run "node server.mjs", I met another error saying that
import { create } from 'ipfs-http-client'
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

I learned a solution that server.js needs to be renamed into server.mjs. After renaming, this error disappeared.

2. When I run 'node server.mjs', I got error message that

node:internal/process/esm_loader:94
internalBinding('errors').triggerUncaughtException(
^
Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'ipfs-http-client' imported from ~/tmp/Fabric-IPFS-project-save/dataCompressWithFabricAndIPFS-master/src/server.mjs
Did you mean to import ipfs-http-client/cjs/src/index.js?
at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:371:5)
at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:892:9)
at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:938:18)
at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1041:11)
at ESMLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:530:30)
at ESMLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:251:18)
at ModuleWrap. (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:79:40)
at link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:78:36) {
code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}

I have already installed ipfs-http-client module whican be seen when I run "npm list -g"

$ npm list -g
/usr/local/lib
├── @grpc/[email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] -> ~/tmp/Fabric-IPFS-project/dataCompressWithFabricAndIPFS-master/src
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

I have already set the environmental variable of $NODE_PATH to point to the node_modules.
$ echo $NODE_PATH
/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/node_modules

$ ls /usr/local/lib/node_modules -l
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 11 16:20 async
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 11 19:44 body-parser
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 19:43 crypto
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 88 Feb 11 15:18 datacompresswithfabricandipfs -> ~/tmp/Fabric-IPFS-project/dataCompressWithFabricAndIPFS-master/src
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 11 19:42 express
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 12 07:55 fabric-network
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 12 13:05 @grpc
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 12 13:11 ipfs
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 12 14:41 ipfs-core
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 12 06:15 ipfs-http-client
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 11 15:16 npm
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 11 15:58 promised-io
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 11 19:32 validator
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 11 17:13 webcrypto-shim
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 12 16:17 yarn

At this point, I truly got stuck because I could not find any helpful information to resolve this error.

Could you please help me to resolve this error?

Thank you.

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I have already resolved the issues that I have raised. The solution is to replace the line of
import { create } from 'ipfs-http-client'
with
import { create } from '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ipfs-http-client/index.js'

Now, I can move into fabricService.js to continue the debugging. It seems to me that the file of fabricService.js is very outdated. For example, the package 'fabric-client' has ben replaced by 'fabric-network'. Thus, all of the APIs related to fabric-client are no longer valid and need to be replaced with APIs in fabric-network.

Have you tried to update the file of fabricService.js? Thanks.