I have git cloned meanjs into a folder in D: drive as shown below and ran the command npm start to start the node server.

admin@admin-PC MINGW32 /d/Udemy Angular 1 projects/Project5/jobfinder (master)
$ npm start

> meanjs@0.5.0 start D:\Udemy Angular 1 projects\Project5\jobfinder
> gulp

[23:41:30] Using gulpfile D:\Udemy Angular 1 projects\Project5\jobfinder\gulpfile.js

....and got the below error.

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\server.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:590:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
    at bootstrap_node.js:509:3
[23:58:35] [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...

After that, just to give it a try I copied the server.js from the current directory to C:\ and issued 'npm start' command at git bash from the same directory and the error changed to below.

Debugger listening on [::]:5858
module.js:457
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module './config/lib/app'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\server.js:6:11)
    at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
[23:41:52] [nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...

Can anyone please help me understand why is Node looking for server.js and other resources at C:\ instead of the current directory? Is there anything very simple I am missing out (though I find it quite strange !). Btw sorry for posting the git bash errors as code since I did not have enough reputations to post more than one image link.

Cheers!

Adding my research ....

Invoking 'npm start' command in meanjs directory hits the file gulpfile.js. Looking into the file, I saw that a gulp task (nodemon) was initiated as below and the script property of the return object was set to 'server.js'.

Code from gulpfile.js.

gulp.task('nodemon', function () {

  var nodeVersions = process.versions;
  var debugArgument = '--debug';
  switch (nodeVersions.node.substr(0, 1)) {
    case '4':
    case '5':
    case '6':
    debugArgument = '--debug';
    break;
    case '7':
      debugArgument = '--inspect';
      break;
  }
  console.log('nodemon task'); // checking execution of the callback
  return plugins.nodemon({
    script: 'server.js',
    nodeArgs: [debugArgument],
    ext: 'js,html',
    verbose: true,
    watch: _.union(defaultAssets.server.views, defaultAssets.server.allJS, defaultAssets.server.config)
  });
});