Unable to run the Watson Dialog tool locally with node.js

Question

I have installed the Watson Dialog tool on my environment and try to run the app.js app.

Unfortunately , it does not run and I get the following messages : can you help ? Thank you PCMacBook-Pro:dialog-tool-master philippecomte$ node app.js /Users/philippecomte/Documents/ALGE2016/WATSON_SERVICES_BLUEMIX/Dialog_Services/dialog-tool-master/config/express.js:26 app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/../public')); ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'use' of undefined at module.exports (/Users/philippecomte/Documents/ALGE2016/WATSON_SERVICES_BLUEMIX/Dialog_Services/dialog-tool-master/config/express.js:26:6) at Object. (/Users/philippecomte/Documents/ALGE2016/WATSON_SERVICES_BLUEMIX/Dialog_Services/dialog-tool-master/app.js:20:16) at Module._compile (module.js:435:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:313:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:467:10) at startup (node.js:136:18) at node.js:963:3 PCMacBook-Pro:dialog-tool-master philippecomte$

Answer 1

Followed the steps below and it worked : download & unzip enter directory with unzipped files run npm install run npm start

Answer 2

Sorry for the late answer, but there is a detailed guide to running the tool locally on the github repository for the dialog-tool.

You can find it here: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/dialog-tool