Unable to start the app : Failed at the @ start script.

[PhilippeComte]

Hello ,
following the instructions, I did : npm install
At npm start I get : dotenv missing
I installed : npm dotenv
Then it is express that is lacking
I've installed the latest node 12.18.0 and npm 6.14.4
and installed express and express generator
Sudo npm install -g express
Sudo npm install -g express-generator

I got issues at npm start
Failed at the @ start script.

Is it something that others have seen ?

here is the log:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'start' ]
2 info using npm@6.14.4
3 info using node@v12.18.0
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle @~prestart: @
6 info lifecycle @~start: @
7 verbose lifecycle @~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle @~start: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/Users/pcomte/Documents/GitHub/assistant-simple/node_modules/.bin:/Users/pcomte/anaconda3/bin:/Users/pcomte/anaconda3/condabin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Applications/apache-maven-3.6.0/bin:/Users/pcomte/python/mes_scripts
9 verbose lifecycle @~start: CWD: /Users/pcomte/Documents/GitHub/assistant-simple
10 silly lifecycle @~start: Args: [ '-c', 'node server.js' ]
11 silly lifecycle @~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle @~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: @ start: `node server.js`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:286:5)
14 verbose pkgid @
15 verbose cwd /Users/pcomte/Documents/GitHub/assistant-simple
16 verbose Darwin 19.5.0
17 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
18 verbose node v12.18.0
19 verbose npm  v6.14.4
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error @ start: `node server.js`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the @ start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Many thanks .

[germanattanasio]

Hi @PhilippeComte.

If you run npm install you should get all the dependencies you need including dotenv

The fact that you got an error on the dependencies makes me think that you are not running the command in the folder where the code is