Meteor your application is crashing

Question

I'm having an issue, I've installed a fresh copy of Meteor on my Windows 7-64 bit, after which I did the following commands:

mkdir meteor
cd meteor
meteor create leaderboard
cd leaderboard

I do get a folder with generated things for the server & client, however if I do

meteor run

I am getting the following error:

C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard>meteor run
[[[[[ C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
W20170119-11:54:04.143(2)? (STDERR) C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.meteor\loc
al\build\programs\server\boot.js:348
W20170119-11:54:04.363(2)? (STDERR) }).run();
W20170119-11:54:04.363(2)? (STDERR)    ^
W20170119-11:54:04.363(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:04.364(2)? (STDERR) Error: The babel-runtime npm package could n
ot be found in your node_modules
W20170119-11:54:04.365(2)? (STDERR) directory. Please run the following command
to install it:
W20170119-11:54:04.367(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:04.368(2)? (STDERR)   meteor npm install --save babel-runtime
W20170119-11:54:04.369(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:04.370(2)? (STDERR)     at meteorInstall.node_modules.meteor.bab
el-runtime.babel-runtime.js (packages\babel-runtime.js:37:9)
W20170119-11:54:04.371(2)? (STDERR)     at fileEvaluate (packages\modules-runtim
e.js:181:9)
W20170119-11:54:04.372(2)? (STDERR)     at require (packages\modules-runtime.js:
106:16)
W20170119-11:54:04.374(2)? (STDERR)     at packages\babel-runtime.js:139:15
W20170119-11:54:04.375(2)? (STDERR)     at packages\babel-runtime.js:150:3
W20170119-11:54:04.378(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:295:34
W20170119-11:54:04.379(2)? (STDERR)     at Array.forEach (native)
W20170119-11:54:04.381(2)? (STDERR)     at Function._.each._.forEach (C:\Users\A
lex\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.4.2_3\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_
bundle\server-lib\node_modules\underscore\underscore.js:79:11)
W20170119-11:54:04.383(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:128:5
W20170119-11:54:04.384(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:344:5
=> Exited with code: 1
W20170119-11:54:06.201(2)? (STDERR) C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.meteor\loc
al\build\programs\server\boot.js:348
W20170119-11:54:06.203(2)? (STDERR) }).run();
W20170119-11:54:06.203(2)? (STDERR)    ^
W20170119-11:54:06.204(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:06.205(2)? (STDERR) Error: The babel-runtime npm package could n
ot be found in your node_modules
W20170119-11:54:06.206(2)? (STDERR) directory. Please run the following command
to install it:
W20170119-11:54:06.208(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:06.209(2)? (STDERR)   meteor npm install --save babel-runtime
W20170119-11:54:06.211(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:06.211(2)? (STDERR)     at meteorInstall.node_modules.meteor.bab
el-runtime.babel-runtime.js (packages\babel-runtime.js:37:9)
W20170119-11:54:06.213(2)? (STDERR)     at fileEvaluate (packages\modules-runtim
e.js:181:9)
W20170119-11:54:06.214(2)? (STDERR)     at require (packages\modules-runtime.js:
106:16)
W20170119-11:54:06.216(2)? (STDERR)     at packages\babel-runtime.js:139:15
W20170119-11:54:06.217(2)? (STDERR)     at packages\babel-runtime.js:150:3
W20170119-11:54:06.218(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:295:34
W20170119-11:54:06.219(2)? (STDERR)     at Array.forEach (native)
W20170119-11:54:06.220(2)? (STDERR)     at Function._.each._.forEach (C:\Users\A
lex\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.4.2_3\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_
bundle\server-lib\node_modules\underscore\underscore.js:79:11)
W20170119-11:54:06.221(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:128:5
W20170119-11:54:06.223(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:344:5
=> Exited with code: 1
W20170119-11:54:08.174(2)? (STDERR) C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.meteor\loc
al\build\programs\server\boot.js:348
W20170119-11:54:08.175(2)? (STDERR) }).run();
W20170119-11:54:08.176(2)? (STDERR)    ^
W20170119-11:54:08.177(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:08.177(2)? (STDERR) Error: The babel-runtime npm package could n
ot be found in your node_modules
W20170119-11:54:08.178(2)? (STDERR) directory. Please run the following command
to install it:
W20170119-11:54:08.179(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:08.181(2)? (STDERR)   meteor npm install --save babel-runtime
W20170119-11:54:08.182(2)? (STDERR)
W20170119-11:54:08.183(2)? (STDERR)     at meteorInstall.node_modules.meteor.bab
el-runtime.babel-runtime.js (packages\babel-runtime.js:37:9)
W20170119-11:54:08.184(2)? (STDERR)     at fileEvaluate (packages\modules-runtim
e.js:181:9)
W20170119-11:54:08.185(2)? (STDERR)     at require (packages\modules-runtime.js:
106:16)
W20170119-11:54:08.186(2)? (STDERR)     at packages\babel-runtime.js:139:15
W20170119-11:54:08.187(2)? (STDERR)     at packages\babel-runtime.js:150:3
W20170119-11:54:08.188(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:295:34
W20170119-11:54:08.189(2)? (STDERR)     at Array.forEach (native)
W20170119-11:54:08.191(2)? (STDERR)     at Function._.each._.forEach (C:\Users\A
lex\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.4.2_3\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_
bundle\server-lib\node_modules\underscore\underscore.js:79:11)
W20170119-11:54:08.192(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:128:5
W20170119-11:54:08.193(2)? (STDERR)     at C:\Users\Alex\Meteor\leaderboard\.met
eor\local\build\programs\server\boot.js:344:5
=> Exited with code: 1
=> Your application is crashing. Waiting for file change.

Any ideas what's wrong? Like I said this is freshly installed..

Answer 1

Try typing this in your cmd:

meteor npm install --save babel-runtime

as it is suggested in your error.

If it returned something like:

Fatal error : git is not installed or not in the PATH

just go ahead and download GIT from git.com then restart your cmd and run your commands ... should be fine as it has worked for me

Answer 2

If you look in the package.json file you'll see:

"dependencies": { "meteor-node-stubs": "~0.2.0", "babel-runtime": "6.18.0" }

You may have missed the instruction in the terminal after the creation of the leaderboard app that said to run meteor npm install - run that before meteor run and the dependencies will be installed and you can start the leaderboard app.

https://guide.meteor.com/using-npm-packages.html