npm start throwing error 'This is related to npm not being able to find a file.'

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I just created a react app, it was working fine but once I restart the editor it is throwing error like this :

        Poojas-MacBook-Air:newreact pooja$ npm start
        npm ERR! path /Users/pooja/Desktop/projects/newreact/package.json
        npm ERR! code ENOENT
        npm ERR! errno -2
        npm ERR! syscall open
        npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 
        '/Users/pooja/Desktop/projects/newreact/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/pooja/.npm/_logs/2020-11-28T10_27_42_118Z-debug.log

Please help if anyone knows about it.

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4 Answers
  1. Make sure you have the latest npm (npm install -g npm).
  2. Add an exception to your antivirus to ignore the node_modules folder in your project.
  3. rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
  4. npm install
user_125652770

Sometimes the PATH is not correct, just open the cmd and cd to the address where the package.json is and then run npm start

user_150013050

For me, it was because of the running Metro server. If anyone is experiencing this issue in react-native, make sure you have stopped the running Metro server instance before entering npm i <package-name>.
With yarn, I think, there's no such issue.

user_43879750

To resolve package.json file, go to your project folder and find package.json location folder. Open terminal and make sure your are in correct path where package.json file located. eg: c://projectfolder/folder1/clientapp> npm start

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