Thanks to https://github.com/drichard/mindmaps you can host your own copy of Mind Map like I did at

http://mindmap.waltercedric.com/index.html

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s #JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

and npm is the package manager for the Node #JavaScript platform.  It puts modules in place so that node can find them, and manages dependency
conflicts intelligently. It is extremely configurable to support a wide variety of use cases. Most commonly, it is used to publish, discover, install, and develop node programs. (https://npmjs.org/)

Short How To

sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
wget https://github.com/drichard/mindmaps/archive/master.zip 
unzip master.zip cd master
npm install
jake -f Jakefile.js

Now you can copy the content of the ./bin directory to any web root and you are good to go!

Longer version

These are all the error I havve encounter and how I did solve them

TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method ‘existsSync’

This is because your version of nodejs is tool old: nodejs 0.6  moved path.existsSync to fs.existsSync, so if you’re using an old version of node then fs.existsSync will be broken.

Check your current version of node.js

# nodejs –version

was returning v0.6.19 on my box

To update to the latest version v0.10.25, you’ll have to rely on an external ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs

Now you should have the latest version of node.js

npm http 404 http://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js   npm ERR! registry error parsing json

Either set the registry to not use SSL globally

sudo npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

or specify the registry and get manually the required dependencies

sudo npm install uglify-js --registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ sudo npm install node-static --registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ sudo npm install -g jake --registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

npm WARN cannot run in wd

The Node.js  package manager ca not run in working directory

npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field. npm WARN prefer global [email protected] should be installed with -g npm WARN cannot run in wd [email protected] npm install -g jake (wd=/xxx/…)

You need to run npm as sudo or without permission checks

sudo npm install --unsafe-perm

a successful install should look like

sudo npm install 

npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field. npm WARN prefer global [email protected] should be installed with -g  > [email protected] postinstall /mindmap/build > npm install -g jake  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/jake npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/jake npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/utilities npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/utilities npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/sigmund /usr/bin/jake -> /usr/lib/node_modules/jake/bin/cli.js [email protected] /usr/lib/node_modules/jake ├── [email protected] └── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected])

Last step is to run the jakefile with jake. The finished build will appear in /bin.

jake -f Jakefile.js