Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing

javascript reactjs npm redux react-redux
Deepak Mahakale picture Deepak Mahakale · May 15, 2018 · Viewed 97.5k times · Source

I am trying to start a Redux application I just cloned from a GitHub repository.

I tried to run it with the following command 

npm start

I am getting this error 

> [email protected] start /home/workspace/assignment
> webpack-dev-server --config ./configs/webpack/webpack.config.development.js

sh: 1: webpack-dev-server: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `webpack-dev-server --config ./configs/webpack/webpack.config.development.js`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install?

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/.npm/_logs/2018-05-15T16_32_44_571Z-debug.log

Any help will be appreciated

Answer

Dan picture Dan · May 15, 2018

npm start runs a script that the app maker built for easy starting of the app npm install installs all the packages in package.json

run npm install first

then run npm start

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