Webpack: error starting "npm start"

Question

I cloned an egghead project using webpack (great tutorial). I encountered the following error:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'c:\Program Files\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'c:\Program Files\nodejs\nodemodules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'start' ]
2 info using npm@2.5.1
3 info using node@v0.12.0
4 verbose node symlink c:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe
5 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
6 info prestart webpack-angular@1.0.0
7 info start webpack-angular@1.0.0
8 verbose unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 info webpack-angular@1.0.0 Failed to exec start script
10 verbose stack Error: webpack-angular@1.0.0 start: `node nodemodules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --content-base app
10 verbose stack Exit status 1
10 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\lib\utils\lifecycle.js:213:16)
10 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:110:17)
10 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\lib\utils\spawn.js:14:12)
10 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17)
10 verbose stack at maybeClose (child_process.js:1008:16)
10 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1080:5)
11 verbose pkgid webpack-angular@1.0.0
12 verbose cwd C:\Users\Yonk\Documents\webPackApp
13 error Windows_NT 6.1.7601
14 error argv "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
15 error node v0.12.0
16 error npm v2.5.1
17 error code ELIFECYCLE
18 error webpack-angular@1.0.0 start:node nodemodules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --content-base app`
18 error Exit status 1
19 error Failed at the webpack-angular@1.0.0 start script 'node nodemodules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --content-base app'.
19 error This is most likely a problem with the webpack-angular package,
19 error not with npm itself.
19 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
19 error node node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --content-base app
19 error You can get their info via:
19 error npm owner ls webpack-angular
19 error There is likely additional logging output above.
20 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

My steps:

• Unpack
• npm install
• npm start

Any idea why this happened and how to fix it?

Answer 1

The initial configuration of the lesson using the bash script server is done under Linux, which leads to an error on Windows. To start the server under Windows, you need to change to package.json start script line:

from this:

"start": "node node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --content-base app"

:

"start": "node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server.cmd --content-base app"