NPM doesn t install module dependencies

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This is my package json for the module that I m including in the parent project        version    0 0 1      name    module-name      dependencies          express    3 3 4        grunt    0 4 1        grunt-contrib-compass    0 4 0        grunt-contrib-copy    0 4 1        grunt-contrib-cssmin    0 4 1        grunt-contrib-jshint    0 6 3        grunt-contrib-requirejs    0 4 1        grunt-contrib-uglify    0 2 2        grunt-contrib-watch    0 5 1        grunt-express-server    0 4 1        grunt-karma    0 4 5        grunt-regex-replace    0 2 5        request    2 25 0          scripts          postinstall    grunt install          One thing to note is that this module is contained in a private repo and I include it in the parent package json like   module-name    git ssh   git myserver user module-name git

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happens with old node version  use latest version of node like this     nvm use 8 0   rm -rf node modules    npm install   npm i somemodule   edit  also make sure you save    eg  npm install yourmoduleName --save

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Worth to mention to make sure your dependencies should be in the dependencies part of your package json  as opposed to devDependencies    My issue was basically the same as OP    installing a private repo  Let s call it repo1  via  module-name    git ssh   git myserver user my-repo-name git  in other repo Let s call it repo2    in repo2 s node modules  one package dependency from repo1 wasn t there  My silly mistake    repo1 was listing that dependency in devDependencies instead of dependencies Move the dependency in my repo1 s package json from devDependencies  to dependencies In my repo2  I removed my node modules and package-lock json  did npm install  an voil       dependency was there

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I suspect you re facing the issue where your package json file is not in the same directory as your Gruntfile js  When you run your grunt xxx commands  you get error an message like   Local Npm module  xxx  not found  Is it installed    For now  the solution is    Create package json in the same directory as Gruntfile js Define the modules required by your grunt project Execute npm install to load them locally Now the required grunt command should work    IMHO  it is sad that we cannot have grunt resolve modules loaded from a parent npm module  i e  package json in a parent directory within the same project   The discussion here seems to indicate that it was done to avoid loading  global  modules but I think what we want is loading from  my project  modules instead

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I was receiving this error when I installed a clean Node dev environment on windows    To fix this  I went into my new project directory  that I just scaffolded with yo angular  and typed in two commands   npm install -g grunt --save-dev  That will install the local grunt dependencies to your project  Next   npm install   That will ensure all your  new  project dependencies are installed    Tada

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I think that I also faced this problem  and the best solution I found was to look at my console and figure out the error that was being thrown  So  I read it carefully and found that the problem was that I didn t specify my repo  description  and valid name in my package json  I added those pieces of information and everything was okay

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Just in case anyone is suffering from this predicament and happens to make the same asanine mistake that I did  here is what it was in my case   After banging my head against the wall for an hour  I realized that I had my json incorrectly nested  and the key  dependencies  was inside of the key  repository   Needless to say  no errors were evident  and no modules were installed

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Also check that your package name is correctly accepted   WRONG          name   My Awesome Package        CORRECT         name    my-awesome-package-name

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if you inherited this code  it could be that the dependencies and versions were locked and you have a   npm-shrinkwrap json file   if your dependency is not listed in that file  it will never get installed with the npm install command   you will need to manually install the packages and then run npm shrinkwrap to update the shrinkwrap file

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I am using windows machine     I deleted node modules folder  Somehow  package lock json file is getting created  I deleted that file  Then npm install  Clean build  Run

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In my case it helped to remove node modules and package-lock json   After that just reinstall everything with npm install

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I had very similar issue  removing entire node modules folder and re-installing worked for me  Learned this trick from the IT Crowd show    rm -rf node modules npm install

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OP may be true for an older version of node  However  I faced the same with node 4 4 1 as well   It very well may be linked to the node version you are using  Try to upgrade to a latest version  Certain dependencies don t load transitively if they are incompatible with node version   I found this by running npm update   After upgrading to latest version  4 4 -  5 9   this got fixed

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It looks like you hit a bug that has existed for quite a while and doesn t have solution yet  There are several open issues for this case in the npm repository    npm install should recursively check install dependencies https   github com npm npm issues 1341  closed  local private module dependencies https   github com npm npm issues 2442  closed    In the first one people list several workarounds that you may try   An alternative solution may be  a little hackish  to explicitly list the dependencies as first level dependents  This requires you to maintain the list but practically it has to be done very infrequently

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Another way to work this around is to add this into your module package json scripts section   preinstall    npm install  Packages You depend on     what this will does is  it will install all packages needed by the module and you won t get that error

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I had the same problem  But on the same machine one project had good package json  where all my dependencies are successfully installed  And in another project my package json dependencies were not installed no matter what i do  I just copied the package json and pasted into that another project  And it worked   The difference i have found was only empty line at the start of file  Dont know or it influences anything  maybe some other problem  But the problem was only the package json file

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You might need to install the grunt-cli  try this before doing a npm install   sudo npm install -g grunt-cli   That fixes the grunt does not exit for me  you ll also need a valid grunt file   Source  https   stackoverflow com a 16456467 241294

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