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JavaScript React Basics First Steps in React Setting Up a React App

Dazeran Zamri
Dazeran Zamri
5,992 Points

Error when running command in terminal

Hi, was trying to follow along the video but got stuck at running the command "npm i"

Error as follows :

dazeranzamri@Dashs-MacBook-Pro react-basics % npm i npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall open npm ERR! path /Users/dazeranzamri/Documents/Education/react-basics/package.json npm ERR! errno -2 npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/dazeranzamri/Documents/Education/react-basics/package.json' npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file. npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/dazeranzamri/.npm/_logs/2023-09-27T21_19_49_999Z-debug-0.log dazeranzamri@Dashs-MacBook-Pro react-basics %

2 Answers

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Hey Dazeran Zamri 👋

Looks like you're in the wrong directory when running the command. You'll want to make sure to change into the directory where the project files are located.

Judging from the error snippet you've shared it looks like you're located in the /react-basics folder but you'll want to move into the grocery-list directory. This is where the package.json file is located that is required to run the install command.

Hope this will help to get you going again 😃

Dazeran Zamri
Dazeran Zamri
5,992 Points

This worked, thanks Rohald!

n r
n r
7,663 Points

How do I actually change this?

Peter Harbour
Peter Harbour
226 Points

This worked for me