Blockbase: child theme creation failed

[cskelton86]

Steps to replicate

As per the Blockbase instructions, I ran the following command:

christian@christians-imac blockbase % npm run create:child em-core-theme

Result

blockbase@1.4.1 create:child
node create-child.js "em-core-theme"

npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade to version 7 or higher. Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic. See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see request/request#3142

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em-core-theme@0.0.1 build
npm run build:theme && npm run build:scss

em-core-theme@0.0.1 build:theme
node ../blockbase/build.js em-core-theme

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:936
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module '/Users/christian/Local Sites/event-manual/app/public/wp-content/themes/blockbase/build.js'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: []
}
child theme creation failed: Error: Command failed: cd ../em-core-theme/ && npm install && npm run build

Expected

I expected the child theme to be built but instead, it looks like build.js is missing from Blockbase. Any ideas?

[MaggieCabrera]

Yes, thanks for reporting this! We recently changed Blockbase because the build process is no longer needed to generate a theme.json on the child theme that inherits from the parent (see #4861) and that affected the create child script. We need to update it to no longer use the build.js file anymore.

[MaggieCabrera]

Meanwhile, I suggest you try https://github.com/Automattic/create-blockbase-theme, a plugin we are working on for the same purpose. It's still In really early stages though! But it will work better than this script does at the moment.

[cskelton86]

Perfect, thank you very much.

[MaggieCabrera]

I'll keep this open to either fix the script or remove it entirely though.