Hey I'm trying to install webpack right now.

I have everything setup, but when I try to run webpack inside my terminal, it searches for the package.json file in the wrong directory.

So my question is, can I change the path where npm tries to find my package.json file?

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/User/package.json

^error message I get after trying to run npm webpack in Terminal

{
  "name": "package",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "babel-core": "^6.26.0",
    "babel-loader": "^7.1.2",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
    "es6-promise": "^4.1.1",
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0"
  }
}

^this is the package.json file from my project

Hey I'm trying to install webpack right now.

I have everything setup, but when I try to run webpack inside my terminal, it searches for the package.json file in the wrong directory.

So my question is, can I change the path where npm tries to find my package.json file?

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/User/package.json

^error message I get after trying to run npm webpack in Terminal

{
  "name": "package",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "babel-core": "^6.26.0",
    "babel-loader": "^7.1.2",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-preset-react": "^6.24.1",
    "es6-promise": "^4.1.1",
    "react": "^16.2.0",
    "react-dom": "^16.2.0"
  }
}

^this is the package.json file from my project

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1 Answer 1

You are in the wrong directory.

Make sure you are in the right folder and then run npm install webpack.

In your terminal use pwd to print the current working directory and then ls to list all the files inside it. If there is no package.json you can't install anything.