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Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing

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

> react-redux@1.0.0 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! react-redux@1.0.0 start: `webpack-dev-server --config ./configs/webpack/webpack.config.development.js`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the react-redux@1.0.0 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

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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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

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Just had the same error message, but when I was running a package.json with:

"scripts": {
    "build": "tsc -p ./src",
}

tsc is the command to run the TypeScript compiler.

I never had any issues with this project because I had TypeScript installed as a global module. As this project didn't include TypeScript as a dev dependency (and expected it to be installed as global), I had the error when testing in another machine (without TypeScript) and running npm install didn't fix the problem. So I had to include TypeScript as a dev dependency (npm install typescript --save-dev) to solve the problem.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Working in Grapesjs and get the same error

goto package.json file and check dependencies

  1. Removing unused plugins or unused libraries.

  2. npm install

  3. npm start

Sometimes not useful install plugins get errors.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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