verbose stack Error missing script start

Question

I'm receiving this error when trying to debug my node application using the npm start command.

Error:

npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600 npm ERR! argv "C:\Program Files\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "start" npm ERR! node v0.12.7 npm ERR! npm v2.11.3

How to fix it?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

It looks like you might not have defined a start script in your package.json file or your project does not contain a server.js file.

If there is a server.js file in the root of your package, then npm will default the start command to node server.js.

You could either change the name of your application script to server.js or add the following to your package.json

"scripts": {
    "start": "node your-script.js"
}

Or you could just run node your-script.js directly

Hope it helps!!

Thank You!!