NPM looking in wrong place for React module

Question

Firstly I am not 100% certain my Question title is accurate being that I am very new to NPM/Node/React/VSCode.

I am following a tutorial and am at a step where I created a React app using the command:

PS C:\Users\me\Desktop\Programming\Net Core> npx create-react-app client-app --use-npm --typescript

Which appears to have successfully installed the app in: C:\Users\me\Desktop\Programming\Net Core . "Net Core" being the name of the project.

However when I try to run the following in the terminal I get an error that the react-scripts.js module cannot be found:

PS C:\Users\me\Desktop\Programming\Net Core\client-app> npm start

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\me\Desktop\Programming\react-scripts\bin\react-scripts.js'

The fact that it is looking for 'react-scripts" in the Programming folder makes no sense to me.

I am using Visual Studio Code version 1.38

NPM version 6.11.3

Node.js version 10.11.0

Answer 1

Try to run npm install in the directory before you run npm start.