Playing around with the Admin API in the Node shell/REPL?

Hi,
I’m just trying to familiarize myself with the Ghost APIs and tried to require the Admin API with
const GhostAdminAPI = require('@tryghost/admin-api')
in the node shell with running the node command in the Ghost directory.
It throws this error though:
$ node
> const GhostAdminAPI = require(’@tryghost/admin-api’)
Thrown:
{ Error: Cannot find module ‘@tryghost/admin-api’
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18) code: ‘MODULE_NOT_FOUND’ }

The @tryghost/admin-api is in the respective node_modules folder.

Can anyone help?

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Hey @tillrahn :wave: To be able to access ‘@tryghost/admin-api’ module from Node REPL you need to run it from the folder that is having node_models with this package installed. You can make sure the module is there with:

➜ tree node_modules/@tryghost/admin-api  
node_modules/@tryghost/admin-api
├── lib
│   ├── index.js
│   └── token.js
├── LICENSE
├── package.json
└── README.md

1 directory, 5 files

I just tried this in one of the projects that uses admin-api and it worked fine requiring it from the REPL :wink:

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Thank you, @naz. Made it work. Made a stupid mistake assuming the module was installed in the main Ghost repo, which it wasn’t… :smiley: