npm install installs dependencies into the node_modules/ directory, for the node project you’re working on. You can call install on another node.js project (module), to install it as a dependency for your project. npm run build does nothing unless you specify what “build” does in your package.json file. It lets you perform any necessary building/prep tasks for your project, prior to … Read more
As of npm@5, the npm cache self-heals from corruption issues and data extracted from the cache is guaranteed to be valid. If you want to make sure everything is consistent, use npm cache verify instead. On the other hand, if you’re debugging an issue with the installer, you can use npm install –cache /tmp/empty-cache to use a temporary cache instead … Read more
NPM – Manages packages but doesn’t make life easy executing any.NPX – A tool for executing Node packages. NPX comes bundled with NPM version 5.2+ NPM by itself does not simply run any package. it doesn’t run any package in a matter of fact. If you want to run a package using NPM, you must specify that package in your package.json file. When executables are installed via NPM packages, NPM links to … Read more
Apparently, there was a /Users/myusername/local folder that contained a include with node and lib with node and node_modules. How and why this was created instead of in my /usr/local folder, I do not know. Deleting these local references fixed the phantom v0.6.1-pre. If anyone has an explanation, I’ll choose that as the correct answer. EDIT: … Read more
Your app is expecting to find a file at /home/embah/node/nodeapp/config/config.json but that file does not exist (which is what ENOENT means). So you either need to create the expected directory structure or else configure your application such that it looks in the correct directory for config.json.
The npm file should be in /usr/local/bin/npm. If it’s not there, install node.js again with the package on their website. This worked in my case.
To download and install all modules in the node_modules/ folder, you need to use install and not start. As start is not predefined by npm, you need to define a custom script for it, if you want to use the comment. So install is the default command to download and install all modules, depending on you package.json:
To check if any module in a project is ‘old’: ‘outdated‘ will check every module defined in package.json and see if there is a newer version in the NPM registry. For example, say xml2js 0.2.6 (located in node_modules in the current project) is outdated because a newer version exists (0.2.7). You would see: To update … Read more
Step 1: $ npm cache clean –force Step 2: Delete node_modules by $ rm -rf node_modules (rmdir /S /Q node_modules in windows) folder or delete it manually by going into the directory and right-click > delete / move to trash. If are not updating your packages you can delete the package-lock.json file too. Step 3: npm install To start again, $ npm start This worked for me. … Read more
Step 1: $ npm cache clean –force Step 2: Delete node_modules by $ rm -rf node_modules (rmdir /S /Q node_modules in windows) folder or delete it manually by going into the directory and right-click > delete / move to trash. If are not updating your packages you can delete the package-lock.json file too. Step 3: npm install To start again, $ npm start This worked for me. … Read more