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

Posted by Aayush Mitra
Aayush Mitra
24,904 Points

npm start is not working properly

I keep trying everything and I downloaded the new version of the code from github, but it is still not working. Any help is appreciated. Thanks :)

Alexander La Bianca
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 Points

What do you mean by 'not properly'? Can you post your package.json? Does the 'start' command point to the appropriate file?

Aayush Mitra
Aayush Mitra
24,904 Points

It is just that I try to npm install bcrypt, bcryptjs, and bcrypt-nodejs, but it keeps on saying that bcrypt is not found. I have looked through the other forum posts and most of them say that on windows, bcrypt does not work and you should just use bcryptjs and bcrypt-nodejs. Should I go ahead and delete the whole bcrypt declaration in my javascript files and my package.json and just use the others?

Aayush Mitra
Aayush Mitra
24,904 Points

Thanks!

1 Answer

Alexander La Bianca
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 Points

Yes. You can remove it from package.json and all your js files and then remove it also from the node_modules folder.

Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points
Austin Whipple
Austin Whipple
29,725 Points

Changing one of your responses to an answer and making it "Best Answer" so you get credit for you helpful responses! Be sure to use the "Add an Answer" text field when appropriate in case a mod isn't around to move stuff around.