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JavaScript React Components (2018) Build Modular Interfaces with Components Setting up with Create React App

Posted by William Ray Noble
William Ray Noble
22,190 Points

Question about React rendering in the browser

I have downloaded the material from that the instructor gave us, however, when I go to run npm start I receive the following error in the terminal.

npm start npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall open npm ERR! path /Users/raynoble/sei/treehouse/package.json npm ERR! errno -2 npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/raynoble/sei/treehouse/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: npm ERR! /Users/raynoble/.npm/_logs/2020-06-26T18_34_51_860Z-debug.log

I have take the same steps as the instruct has done in the video.

Thanks for your help!

2 Answers

Juan Lopez
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Juan Lopez
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Juan Lopez
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Juan Lopez
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Hello William Ray Noble Just looking at the error message it looks as though you may not have navigated to the correct folder/directory.

Once you download the Project files you'll want to navigate to the correct folder/directory for the lesson you are on. Some may just have the scoreboard folder for you to follow and code along and others will have the scoreboard_final with the finished code for that lesson.

Once you are in the correct directory of either scoreboard or scoreboard_final then you'll want to run 

npm install

after all the dependencies are done installing then you'll be able to run 

npm start
William Ray Noble
William Ray Noble
22,190 Points

Thank you for your quick response. I have navigated to the correct folder that I want to be working out, however, I still receive the same error.

Ali Abbas
Ali Abbas
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Ali Abbas
Ali Abbas
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Hi William Ray Noble. i had the same problem. After several trials, I noticed that my node_modules folder was empty. So, i deleted it. Then i navigated again to the folder scoreboard, ran npm install. it installed the node_module folder and it wasn't empty. Then, i ran npm start, and the server started and i got it to work. I hope this helps you, and hope i explained well.