Thanks @kalenjohnson! I am way late on this but I need to thank @ben and @cfx for some last minute help. You guys are the best!!!
I was scheduled to speak at WordCamp at 10:40am. Inexplicably, I went to sleep at 2am the night before and tossed and turned constantly with anxiety. Finally, I lifted my body off with a spatula at 5am stricken with panic and fear. Then, I came up with the brilliant idea of testing the install process that I planned to demo for the first time on a laptop.
Of course npm install reports a bower error that I have never seen! Noooooo! I try on my desktop - same error! The morning of my first WordCamp talk, my presentation is failing. What do I do? Early retirement?
I took a huge leap of faith. I sent a Twitter DM to @ben:
Hi Ben. I am freaking out here. I have run Roots a hundred times but of course this morning when I try it, I am getting a bower error.
My presentation is in 2 hours. Any chance you can see what I am doing wrong? My phone number is XXX-XXX-XXXX. I would appreciate your help.
Shortly after, he texted me!
Walked me through some steps.
Still not working.
I told him I was giving up. He didn’t even respond to my fatalistic conclusion.
He said our mutual friend @cfx will be calling me!? As soon as @cfx my virtual, now semi-real friend called me, the code finally worked with some troubleshooting (per @cfx I had to delete the node_modules folder and try a clean npm install ). All this happened and resolved 5 MINUTES BEFORE I WAS GOING TO PRESENT.
This is a community of people. I love WordPress. I love Roots. I truly appreciate you all rallying behind me to spread the word. Thanks and I hope I didn’t make an ass out of myself when the video airs. Much love!