I have installed fresh Nest js on new EC2 machine but when I am running it for the very first time it gives following error (looks like npm install fails abrubtly whithout any visible error) :
ubuntu@ip-172-31-15-190:~/projects/mynestjs$ npm run start:dev
> [email protected] start:dev
> nest start --watch
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1144
const err = new Error(message);
^
Error: Cannot find module '/home/ubuntu/projects/mynestjs/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/commands'
Require stack:
- /home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/lib/utils/local-binaries.js
- /home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/bin/nest.js
at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1144:15)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:985:27)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1235:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:176:18)
at loadLocalBinCommandLoader (/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/lib/utils/local-binaries.js:13:26)
at bootstrap (/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/bin/nest.js:14:83)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/bin/nest.js:25:1)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32) {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: [
'/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/lib/utils/local-binaries.js',
'/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/@nestjs/cli/bin/nest.js'
]
}
Node.js v20.10.0
ubuntu@ip-172-31-15-190:~/projects/mynestjs$
It does not work with npm run start and npm run start:dev both.
While installing npm install --silent failed without any error.
I also checked and found that package-lock.json has not been generated.
Node js version is v20.10.0
NPM version is 10.2.5
nest -v command returns error even though I had installed nest globally.
My package.json is as follows:
{
"name": "mynestjs",
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "",
"author": "",
"private": true,
"license": "UNLICENSED",
"scripts": {
"build": "nest build",
"format": "prettier --write "src/**/*.ts" "test/**/*.ts"",
"start": "nest start",
"start:dev": "nest start --watch",
"start:debug": "nest start --debug --watch",
"start:prod": "node dist/main",
"lint": "eslint "{src,apps,libs,test}/**/*.ts" --fix",
"test": "jest",
"test:watch": "jest --watch",
"test:cov": "jest --coverage",
"test:debug": "node --inspect-brk -r tsconfig-paths/register -r ts-node/register node_modules/.bin/jest --runInBand",
"test:e2e": "jest --config ./test/jest-e2e.json"
},
"dependencies": {
"@nestjs/common": "^10.0.0",
"@nestjs/core": "^10.0.0",
"@nestjs/platform-express": "^10.0.0",
"reflect-metadata": "^0.1.13",
"rxjs": "^7.8.1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@nestjs/cli": "^10.0.0",
"@nestjs/schematics": "^10.0.0",
"@nestjs/testing": "^10.0.0",
"@types/express": "^4.17.17",
"@types/jest": "^29.5.2",
"@types/node": "^20.3.1",
"@types/supertest": "^2.0.12",
"@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^6.0.0",
"@typescript-eslint/parser": "^6.0.0",
"eslint": "^8.42.0",
"eslint-config-prettier": "^9.0.0",
"eslint-plugin-prettier": "^5.0.0",
"jest": "^29.5.0",
"prettier": "^3.0.0",
"source-map-support": "^0.5.21",
"supertest": "^6.3.3",
"ts-jest": "^29.1.0",
"ts-loader": "^9.4.3",
"ts-node": "^10.9.1",
"tsconfig-paths": "^4.2.0",
"typescript": "^5.1.3"
},
"jest": {
"moduleFileExtensions": [
"js",
"json",
"ts"
],
"rootDir": "src",
"testRegex": ".*\.spec\.ts$",
"transform": {
"^.+\.(t|j)s$": "ts-jest"
},
"collectCoverageFrom": [
"**/*.(t|j)s"
],
"coverageDirectory": "../coverage",
"testEnvironment": "node"
}
}