what I can when there is error while running electron app

Question

I made my first electron app through electronjs documentation. I ran the application using npm start command, but that showing me this error

$ npm start

my-electron-app@1.0.0 start C:\Users\aksha\OneDrive\Desktop\ElcDocStarter\my-electron-app electron .

'electron' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! my-electron-app@1.0.0 start: `electron .`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the my-electron-app@1.0.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install?

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\aksha\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-02-17T08_15_08_284Z-debug.log

Answer 1

Install electron as global NPM module:

npm i -g electron