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JavaScript User Authentication With Express and Mongo What is Authentication? Setting Up the Project

Harshay Raipancholi
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Harshay Raipancholi
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NPM Start Doesn't Work

Hello Team,

when I run NPM Start I get the following error message, can you help :

C:\Users\harsh\Documents\Full Stack Javascript\auth project\JavaScript-user-auth-express\JavaScript-user-auth-express\complete>npm start

treehouse-express-auth@1.0.0 start C:\Users\harsh\Documents\Full Stack Javascript\auth project\JavaScript-user-auth-express\JavaScript-user-auth-express\complete node ./app

module.js:550 throw err; ^

Error: Cannot find module 'bcrypt' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:548:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:475:25) at Module.require (module.js:597:17) at require (internal/module.js:11:18) at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\harsh\Documents\Full Stack Javascript\auth project\JavaScript-user-auth-express\JavaScript-user-auth-express\complete\models\user.js:2:14) at Module._compile (module.js:653:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10) at Module.load (module.js:566:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3) at Module.require (module.js:597:17) at require (internal/module.js:11:18) at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\harsh\Documents\Full Stack Javascript\auth project\JavaScript-user-auth-express\JavaScript-user-auth-express\complete\routes\index.js:3:12) at Module._compile (module.js:653:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10) at Module.load (module.js:566:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3) at Module.require (module.js:597:17) at require (internal/module.js:11:18) at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\harsh\Documents\Full Stack Javascript\auth project\JavaScript-user-auth-express\JavaScript-user-auth-express\complete\app.js:42:14) at Module._compile (module.js:653:30) npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! treehouse-express-auth@1.0.0 start: node ./app npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the treehouse-express-auth@1.0.0 start script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\harsh\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-10-06T08_30_05_549Z-debug.log

1 Answer

Zack Jackson
Zack Jackson
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Zack Jackson
Zack Jackson
30,220 Points

Did you run npm install in your project directory? Check your package.json file to make sure bcrypt is listed as a dependency first. The error suggests that bcrypt is not in your node_modules folder.