The server was unable to start because NPM was unable to navigate to the wrong directory and locate the package.json file

I recently used vue create to start a project and everything went smoothly. However, when I tried to run npm run serve, I encountered an issue where node couldn't locate the package.json file that was generated during the project creation process.

This problem isn't unique to Vue as I faced a similar issue while learning webpack before diving into vue cli. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to resolve it then either.

My next step is to reinstall node to see if it resolves the problem, although I'm not very optimistic about it.

Additionally, it seems like npm always searches in the wrong directory or expects files to be in the wrong place.

System information:

  • Windows 10 version 2004 os build 19041.1052
  • node version 14.17.0

Error:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [

1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',

1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'run',

1 verbose cli   'serve'

1 verbose cli ]

2 info using <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="513f213c11677f60657f6062">[email protected]</a>

3 info using <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9af4f5feffdaecabaeb4abadb4aa">[email protected]</a>

4 verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\VueProjects\package.

5 verbose cwd C:\VueProjects

6 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19041

7 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program 
Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "serve"

8 verbose node v14.17.0

9 verbose npm  v6.14.13

10 error code ENOENT

11 error syscall open

12 error path C:\VueProjects\package.json

13 error errno -4058

14 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 
'C:\VueProjects\package.json'

15 error enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.

16 verbose exit [ -4058, true ]

https://i.stack.imgur.com/LF578.png

https://i.stack.imgur.com/YjGWM.png

ps. Ill be watching this as much as I can wile trying to fix it as well

javascriptvue.jsnpmpackage.json

Answer №1

Based on the second screenshot you provided, it seems that your project files are not directly located in the directory C:\Vue Projects\. Because of this, the package.json file cannot be found. To resolve this issue, make sure to run the command npm run <some-script-name> from the root directory of your project, which appears to be C:\Vue Projects\componets.

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