Just started new project and when I run npm run dev it throws an error in the terminal

Question

$ npm run dev

vite-project@0.0.0 dev vite

node:events:346 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^

Error: spawn C:\Users\cottamcha\Desktop\Code\portforlio\vite-project\node_modules\esbuild\esbuild.exe ENOENT at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:282:19) at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:480:16) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:81:21) Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at: at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:288:12) at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:480:16) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:81:21) { errno: -4058, code: 'ENOENT', syscall: 'spawn C:\Users\cottamcha\Desktop\Code\portforlio\vite-project\node_modules\esbuild\esbuild.exe', path: 'C:\Users\cottamcha\Desktop\Code\portforlio\vite-project\node_modules\esbuild\esbuild.exe', spawnargs: [ '--service=0.11.23', '--ping' ] }

Answer 1

Try running: node./node_modules/esbuild/install.js