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JavaScript Angular Basics Setting Up an Angular Application Your First Angular Application

Posted by jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points

npm install error

Anyone else get the same error? What do I do? Should we be cloning a git repository for this lesson?

Jason@jason-pc MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/angular-2
$ npm install
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\xampp\htdocs\angular-2\package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\xampp\htdocs\angular-2\package.json'
npm WARN angular-2 No description
npm WARN angular-2 No repository field.
npm WARN angular-2 No README data
npm WARN angular-2 No license field.

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3 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

Did you download the the starter files photo_blog? inside of that folder is a file called package.json inside of that should hold your dependencies for the course.

Go to the teachers notes and download the starter files.

jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points

That did the job, many thanks!

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

Not a problem.

jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points
jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points

I must have missed that step. I don't recall seeing Andrew perform that step? I will try it out. Thanks!

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

There are a lot of things he mentions you will need for this course, in the first video. Please make sure you have downloaded every dependency in order to complete the course.

jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points
jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points

Jacob Mishkin , I have Visual Studio Code (already my go to editor), the latest version of Node & NPM, and typescript which already comes with Visual Studio Code.

Am I missing anything?

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

The reason it works is because you have the dependencies in your package.json file. without that you would need to do a npm init to create a package.json file then add the programs you want to include.