bug:step-5: problem with json-server (potential fix)

[Clifford Fajardo]

If you get the message below from JSON-server see: TypeError: low(...).state is not a function.

 \{^_^}/ hi!

  Loading db.json
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/src/cli/utils/load.js:31
    data = low(source, { storage: fileAsync }).state()
                                               ^

TypeError: low(...).state is not a function
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/src/cli/utils/load.js:31:48)
    at start (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/src/cli/run.js:99:5)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/src/cli/run.js:126:3)

    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/src/cli/index.js:86:3)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/bin/index.js:2:22)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)

TDLR:

• json-server's dependencies may be out of date, so you will need to find the global package on your computer. Mine was at: usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server.
• using your editor, go to json-server 's package.json file & remove all of the upticks ^ in front of all of the package's version numbers. Next ...
• delete node_modules then run npm install

I misunderstood & removed the ^ from the project I was using instead of the actual json-server package located on my computer at usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/. Once I removed the ^ from the package.json inside of the json-server package (usr/local/lib/node_modules/json-server/), deleted the node_modules folder & did npm install my json-server package began to work again =).