Cant find module 'prompt-sync'

Question

I'm sure this is very simple as I am just starting back to learn JavaScript. I understand the basics, the logic, but I've only ever done simple scripts embedded in HTML many years ago. version I get the error:

Cannot find module prompt-script

I have installed the library using the following command with only 1 warning about missing repository in the JSON.

npm install --save @types/prompt-sync

I also tried to delete the installed files and do it like:

C:\Users\Username\Project>npm install --save @types/prompt-sync

When it couldn't find the module the first time.

The script is very simple:

var prompt = require('prompt-sync')();
//
// get input from the user.
//
var n = prompt('How many more times? ');

This of course is not what I wanna write but I must have the library installed wrong since I can't find the module. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm sure it's something really simple. Thank you

Answer 1

You are installing @types/prompt-sync (the TypeScript definitions for prompt-sync - even though you aren't using TypeScript) but requiring prompt-sync .

You have to install the package you are actually requiring, prompt-sync :

npm i prompt-sync