# Npm start error **URL:** \ **Category:** Help me!\ **Tags:** setup\ **Created:** [December 28, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/npm-start-error/1520 "2020-12-28T21:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![William\_W](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/william_w/32/1264_2.png) [@William\_W](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/William_W)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/npm-start-error/1520/1 "2020-12-28T21:22:30Z")
Installing via npm, everything worked well up to the “npm start” command when I received an error. ## Failure Logs Output from npm start: ```javascript > company-admin@0.0.1 start > node ./server.js node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:928 throw err; ^ Error: Cannot find module 'dotenv' Require stack: - /home/williamw/company Admin/server.js at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:925:15) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:769:27) at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:997:19) at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:92:18) at Object. (/home/williamw/company Admin/server.js:1:1) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1108:14) at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1137:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:973:32) at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:813:14) at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:76:12) { code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND', requireStack: ['/home/williamw/company Admin/server.js'] } npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path /home/williamw/company Admin npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command sh -c node ./server.js ``` Full debug log: ```javascript 0 verbose cli [ 0 verbose cli '/home/williamw/.nvm/versions/node/v15.5.0/bin/node', 0 verbose cli '/home/williamw/.nvm/versions/node/v15.5.0/bin/npm', 0 verbose cli 'start' 0 verbose cli ] 1 info using npm@7.3.0 2 info using node@v15.5.0 3 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 2ms 4 timing config:load:file:/home/williamw/.nvm/versions/node/v15.5.0/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc Completed in 2ms 5 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 2ms 6 timing config:load:cli Completed in 1ms 7 timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms 8 timing config:load:file:/home/williamw/company Admin/.npmrc Completed in 0ms 9 timing config:load:project Completed in 0ms 10 timing config:load:file:/home/williamw/.npmrc Completed in 0ms 11 timing config:load:user Completed in 0ms 12 timing config:load:file:/home/williamw/.nvm/versions/node/v15.5.0/etc/npmrc Completed in 0ms 13 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms 14 timing config:load:cafile Completed in 0ms 15 timing config:load:validate Completed in 0ms 16 timing config:load:setUserAgent Completed in 1ms 17 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms 18 timing config:load Completed in 9ms 19 verbose npm-session 62313376f3428ae3 20 timing npm:load Completed in 17ms 21 timing command:run-script Completed in 50ms 22 timing command:start Completed in 53ms 23 verbose stack Error: command failed 23 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/home/williamw/.nvm/versions/node/v15.5.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/index.js:64:27) 23 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:376:20) 23 verbose stack at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1063:16) 23 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:295:5) 24 verbose pkgid company-admin@0.0.1 25 verbose cwd /home/williamw/company Admin 26 verbose Linux 4.14.200-116.320.amzn1.x86_64 27 verbose argv "/home/williamw/.nvm/versions/node/v15.5.0/bin/node" "/home/williamw/.nvm/versions/node/v15.5.0/bin/npm" "start" 28 verbose node v15.5.0 29 verbose npm v7.3.0 30 error code 1 31 error path /home/williamw/company Admin 32 error command failed 33 error command sh -c node ./server.js 34 verbose exit 1 ``` ## Context - OS: Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03 - Database Dialect: MySQL - Node: 15.5.0 - npm: 7.3.0 ---
**Author:** ![anon90145840](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@anon90145840](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon90145840)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 9:51am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/npm-start-error/1520/2 "2020-12-29T09:51:27Z")
Hello @William_W, Welcome to the ForestAdmin community and thank you for sharing your issue with us! In order to assist you, I would need some additional information. - Could you please check that you run the `npm install -s` command and that it was successful? - If **yes** , can you please run `ls` command in the project root folder and confirm that you have the `node_modules` folder present? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![William\_W](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/william_w/32/1264_2.png) [@William\_W](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/William_W)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/npm-start-error/1520/3 "2020-12-29T17:52:33Z")
I didn’t notice any error from `npm install -s` the first time I ran it, but I ran it again after your suggestion and it ran successfully and the node\_modules directory is there. Everything works fine now, thanks. 🤷‍♀️