Node cannot find module ~/package.json (closed) - node.js

Question

I'm trying to start my API with node but this error appears :
$ node ./.local/start.js
module.js:549
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module '/c/Users/$AAU000-TFETR2QTBK6P/Desktop/Stage/whasq-api-master/package.json'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at ConfigurationManager.getPackageConfig (C:\Users\$AAU000-TFETR2QTBK6P\Desktop\Stage\whasq-api-master\node_modules\#rduk\configuration\lib\manager.js:61:15)
at getDocument (C:\Users\$AAU000-TFETR2QTBK6P\Desktop\Stage\whasq-api-master\node_modules\#rduk\configuration\lib\manager.js:74:31)
at ConfigurationManager.getSection (C:\Users\$AAU000-TFETR2QTBK6P\Desktop\Stage\whasq-api-master\node_modules\#rduk\configuration\lib\manager.js:106:19)
at ConfigurationManager.get (C:\Users\$AAU000-TFETR2QTBK6P\Desktop\Stage\whasq-api-master\node_modules\#rduk\configuration\lib\manager.js:93:25)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\$AAU000-TFETR2QTBK6P\Desktop\Stage\whasq-api-master\index.js:14:38)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
The real problem is that the file package.json is present..
ls -a (at ~/Desktop/Stage/whasq-api-master)
./ ../ .circleci/ .gitignore .local/ api/ config/ ecosystem.config.js index.js lib/ node_modules/ package.json package-lock.json README.md sf_certificate/ templatesES.md
//package.json content
{
"name": "whasq-api",
"version": "0.1.1",
"description": "whasq-api",
"engines": {
"node": ">=8.11.1"
},
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"pretest": "standard --fix",
"test": "exit 0"
},
"author": "WhASQ",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"#rduk/configuration": "^2.2.3",
"#rduk/errors": "^1.3.1",
"#rduk/logger": "^1.0.3",
"#rduk/logger-winston-loggly-factory": "0.1.0",
"#rduk/logger-winston-provider": "^1.0.4",
"#rduk/message-broker": "^2.4.0",
"#rduk/provider": "^3.1.3",
"#rduk/tasks-orchestrator": "^0.1.3",
"aws-sdk": "^2.256.1",
"axios": "^0.18.1",
"bcrypt": "^3.0.4",
"body-parser": "^1.18.2",
"csv": "^3.1.0",
"dotenv": "5.0.1",
"elasticsearch": "^16.4.0",
"express": "4.16.3",
"express-request-id": "^1.4.1",
"helmet": "^3.15.1",
"jsonwebtoken": "8.2.1",
"morgan": "^1.9.1",
"multer": "^1.3.1",
"orm": "^5.0.4",
"package.json": "^2.0.1",
"pg": "^7.4.1",
"react-s3-uploader": "^4.8.0",
"socket.io": "2.0.4",
"socketio-jwt": "4.5.0",
"standard": "11.0.1",
"swagger-express-mw": "0.7.0",
"winston": "2.4.0"
},
"directories": {
"lib": "lib"
},
"devDependencies": {},
"keywords": []
}
I tried a lot of things, like switch versions of Node, delete modules then reinstall them, and other stuff like that but I cannot solve this problem.
I'm using those versions :
npm 6.11.3 node 8.11.1 and I'm using GitBash (i tried Powershell but no change)
(I tried every single version of Node (>=8.11.1) and the error is the same every time)
ls -a (at ~/Desktop/Stage/whasq-api-master/.local)
.env start.js
//start.js content
require('dotenv').load({path: process.env.PWD + '/.local/.env'})
require('../')
//.env content
RDUK_CONFIG_PATH=config
RDUK_CONFIG_PREFIX=app
RDUK_CONFIG_EXT=.yaml
APP_PORT=6500
APP_SECRET=xxx
SF_SECRET=(hidden)
SF_CERTIFICATE=sf_certificate/public.pem
AMQP_ADDRESS=amqp://cawdev:cawdev#192.168.1.87:5672
LOGGLY_TOKEN=xxx
LOGGLY_SUBDOMAIN=xxx
LOGGLY_LOGIN=jessie
LOGGLY_PASSWORD=(hidden)
ES_ADDRESS=http://cawtest.net:9200/
DB_PROTOCOL=postgresql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=5433
DB_NAME=mydb
DB_USER=esteban
DB_PASS=(hidden)
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=(hidden)
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=(hidden)
AWS_REGION=eu-west-3
AWS_BUCKET=(hidden)
I also tried to move my repository at C:/ to avoid potential problems with my username ($AAU000-TFETR2QTBK6P) because I thought that name could be mistaken for an environment variable.

Answer 1

The issue come from the way Windows interpret the npm library, I advise you to switch to a Linux or Mac environment..