@Annihil said in Forum completely gone:

Unable to build or find a suitable native module, falling back to JS version

I saw a similar problem here. perhaps you can try it out?
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/12981/solved-nodebb-fresh-install-several-issues-upload-dev-mode-rebuild-restart-disabled

@rod
No that's right. It shows the same message to me, but my forum works just fine.
the problem is this line
[benchpressjs] Unable to build or find a suitable native module, falling back to JS version
it means nodebb is unable to find node_modules, meaning package json file is damaged or missing. I would open the package.json file and add the following line in dependencies.

"benchpressjs": "^1.2.5",

cd /home/yourname/nodebb
./nodebb stop
./nodebb build
./nodebb start

serverless environment? you meant like github? no. you need nodejs, mongodb to run this.

anyone knows how to fix this error?

does this still work?

found by searching in Ubuntu. it's in
/home/yourUserName/nodebb/build/public/

URL says it like this myDomain/assets/client-darkly.css
but I can't find the client darkly css file to remove the google font from loading. Or is there any other easy way to stop google font from loading?

plugin doesn't work with v1.12.0. there is no award option in the admin panel.

2019-04-14T20:28:57.017Z [4567/19223] - �[33mwarn�[39m: [deprecated] requiring core modules with module.parent.require('./src/emitter') is deprecated. Please use require.main.require("./src/<module_name>") instead.
at /home/user/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards/plugin/nodebb.js:7:31

2019-04-14T20:28:57.020Z [4567/19223] - �[31merror�[39m: Error: Cannot find module './src/emitter'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:582:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:508:25)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
at Module.require.main.require (/home/user/nodebb/require-main.js:8:10)
at /home/user/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards/plugin/nodebb.js:7:31
at Object. (/home/user/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-ns-awards/plugin/nodebb.js:42:3)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)

2019-04-14T20:28:57.022Z [4567/19223] - �[33mwarn�[39m: [plugins] Unable to parse library for: nodebb-plugin-ns-awards

cloudflare is not a problem because I tested that by disabling it. I use nginx, but I am not sure there is a problem with that.

I just noticed nodebb forum has no problem in changing the display picture immediately, but on my forum (freshly installed) I have to press ctrl+f5 to clear the cache to make the display picture to appear.

honestly I was wondering the same. the forum software is excellent. it loads faster, lightweight, uses node not something old as php, but it's so annoying to build the nodebb whenever you change some settings. plugins don't work, rebuilding/restart required to change the theme.