Npm在错误的目录中搜索package.json

Question

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

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.