NPM Install does not produce wwwroot and npm run serve errors out

I am on a Mac and not sure what I am doing wrong, but I downloaded both the project starter zip from Teacher's Notes about 10 times, extracted it, pathed into the directory and ran VSCode from it. I would run npm install (which would fail unless I added a sudo to it). While trying to follow along with the video I noticed that the wwwroot folder was missing. I tried to run npm run build anyway, only to receive a list of errors and failures.

After doing this so many times I literally needed to walk away from my laptop out of frustration, I tried downloading the project files from the downloads tab of the video. I tried following along with the video using every single folder as the project folder and could not get a single one to compile and run the dev server. I am beyond frustrated and not really sure how to proceed seeing as the files I need to follow along don't work at all.

Below is the output of the log file produced when the npm run serve fails.

0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'run', 'serve' ] 2 info using npm@2.15.9 3 info using node@v4.5.0 4 verbose run-script [ 'preserve', 'serve', 'postserve' ] 5 info preserve photoblog@ 6 info serve photoblog@ 7 verbose unsafe-perm in lifecycle true 8 info photoblog@ Failed to exec serve script 9 verbose stack Error: photoblog@ serve: webpack-dev-server --config config/develop.config.js --inline --progress --port 8080 9 verbose stack Exit status 1 9 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:217:16) 9 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) 9 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:172:7) 9 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:24:14) 9 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) 9 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7) 9 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:829:16) 9 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5) 10 verbose pkgid photoblog@ 11 verbose cwd /Users/Jake/Downloads/photo_blog 12 error Darwin 15.6.0 13 error argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "serve" 14 error node v4.5.0 15 error npm v2.15.9 16 error code ELIFECYCLE 17 error photoblog@ serve: webpack-dev-server --config config/develop.config.js --inline --progress --port 8080 17 error Exit status 1 18 error Failed at the photoblog@ serve script 'webpack-dev-server --config config/develop.config.js --inline --progress --port 8080'. 18 error This is most likely a problem with the photoblog package, 18 error not with npm itself. 18 error Tell the author that this fails on your system: 18 error webpack-dev-server --config config/develop.config.js --inline --progress --port 8080 18 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: 18 error npm bugs photoblog 18 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via: 18 error 18 error npm owner ls photoblog 18 error There is likely additional logging output above. 19 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Any help would be VERY much appreciated