I know this has been asked before, but that question did not help me at all! So I am trying to make an Electron app using its tutorial, and whenever I try and run my code, this error pops up:
npm ERR! missing script: start
Here is my package.json:
{
"name": "my-electron-app",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "main.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"start": "electron ."
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC"
}
So what am I doing wrong?
Strange. I can't think of many reasons why this is happening. I have a few ideas that may help.
Check you are in the correct folder to run the command
Attempt npm run start instead
If neither of these work, there may be something else that is missing
Ok for those of you who had a similar problem, try using a different shell! I was using WSL and when I tried Windows command prompt everything worked just fine.
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Apologies if this is really simple, I really don't understand the fundamentals involved here.
I recently got a string of emails from GitHub letting me know that there were security vulnerabilities in my package-lock.json files, but since I do not actually have any packages in my package.json files (except parcel bundler, which was auto generated?), I wasn't sure if that was an issue. The only reason either file exists is because I used the Webstorm HTML5-Boilerplate template for the project, which auto generated them.
This is the entirety of my package.json file.
{
"name": " ",
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "",
"keywords": "",
"license": "",
"author": "",
"scripts": {
"build": "parcel build index.html",
"dev": "parcel index.html --open",
"start": "npm run build && npm run dev",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"parcel-bundler": "^1.12.4"
}
}
To the best of my knowledge the only other external code used is jsdelivr and two research scripts, jquery and proliferate; none of these are raising any flags on GitHub.
Are there vulnerabilities simply by virtue of having outdated packages in package-lock.json even if they are never used? Should I just delete the files or is there a better solution?
The only real bug fix I've tried so far is generating a new HTML5-Boilerplate template using Webstorm to see if it had updated the package-lock, but that didn't do anything.
I have to document and resume code from another developer which has been fired because of a lot a disciplinary trouble inside the team.
The application uses nodeJS and mongoDB and I'm a beginner at nodeJS, but webstorm help me a lot to understand how the application works.
(I precise the former dev did not leave me so much documentation, so I'm doing reverse engeeniring and cleaning here).
My question today is:
the node_modules looks like it is really huge to me, with 243 sub-repository. I'm suspecting than some of these are not usefull to the project but the package.json is not really helping here:
{
"name": "my_rotting_project",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "main.js",
"bin": "main.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "node --no-deprecation core/server",
"server": "nodemon --no-deprecation core/server",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"luna": "file:./core"
},
"pkg": {
"scripts": "plugins/**/*.js",
"assets": [
"static/**/*",
"core/static/**/*"
]
},
"nodemonConfig": {
"ext": "js,mjs,json,html,css,ejs"
}
}
I have launched npx check and npx npm_check commands but they show me no unused library which seems unlikely (but both of them have written than some of dependencies was missing in package.json)
Does someone know if theses plugins are reliable enough or should I try other methods ? (and what should I do in this case ?)
thank you !
I've got the following scripts in my root package.json in my lerna repo:
"scripts": {
"lerna:changed": "npx lerna changed",
"lerna:diff": "npx lerna diff",
"lerna:publish": "npx lerna publish"
}
After running npm run lerna:publish I see a gitHead key in my package.json file of all packages (not the root.json). This becomes a big problem when it comes to versioning because all packages will get bumped when this change is added. Why is this happening and how can I stop it?
I used to have a publish command in my root package.json file and I know this could have caused this problem originally but I've since removed it. Now, the package.json files for my sub packages look basically like this:
{
"name": "#myProject/appOne",
"version": "0.0.15-alpha.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"directories": {
"lib": "lib"
},
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC"
}
UPDATE: It seems like gitHead is added as a temporary key during the publish phase. My publish creates tags and commits them to GIT but my deployment to my registry is failing and that's probably why the cleanup isn't happening.
Trying to use this tutorial here:
https://github.com/lykmapipo/nodejs-cucumber-sample
The output to nvm current is: v10.12.0.
The output to npm --version is: 6.4.1>
I get the error below once I invoke npm test:
> nodejs-cucumber-sample#0.0.1 test /home/gnuc/code/nodejs-cucumber-sample
> cucumber.js
sh: 1: cucumber.js: not found
I am not sure as to why this is the case. The $PATH includes /home/gnuc/.nvm/versions/node/v10.12.0/bin. And I have already used npm install cucumber -g and npm install cucumber
Make sure that your package.json file includes this: "test": "cucumber-js"
So that it looks something like this:
{
"name": "hellocucumber",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": **"cucumber-js"**
},
"keywords": [],
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"cucumber": "^5.1.0"
}
}
So, you need to actually call the npm package/library. I have the following defined in my package.json:
"scripts": {
"test": "node ./node_modules/.bin/cucumber-js"
},
you can also add some ---tags in this call.
"scripts": {
"test": "node ./node_modules/.bin/cucumber-js --tags #RegressionTestSuite"
},
this will run any feature files that have #RegressionTestSuite at the top
Also, I have an output/results file created with a time stamp.
"scripts": {
"test": "node ./node_modules/.bin/cucumber-js --tags #RegressionTestSuite --format json:./results/log_new_`date +%Y-%m-%m__%H-%M`.json""
},
I hope this helped.
node ./node_modules/cucumber/bin/cucumber-js
This command is working fine.
And you got sh:1: cucumber.js: not found error means first things please look out the path of cucumber.js
I would like to achieve automation of motcha --watcher feature using package.json file without globally installing mocha.
One of npm features is to allow add custom scripts into npm command. Previously I configured test runner successfully and I can type in bash now:
npm test
Everything works fine, so I would like also do something similar because
./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha --watch app.js test.js"
is not too efective.
My goal is to run mocha watcher by typing in bash:
npm watch
Unfortunately watcher doesn't run - instead I see standard output of npm command without parameters. It looks like my custom script wasn't registered by npm.
Here is my actual package.json file
{
"name": "screencast",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "mocha test.js", // works properly after typing 'npm test'
"watch": "mocha --watch app.js test.js" // Syntax looks ok, but command 'npm watch' d
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"express": "^4.10.6"
},
"devDependencies": {
"mocha": "^2.0.1",
"supertest": "^0.15.0"
}
}
Anyone had this issue before?
For a 'custom' script like watch, you have to do npm run watch instead of npm watch