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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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