npm run generate-docs fails

[ReagentX]

Christophers-MacBook-Pro:~ chris$ npm run generate-docs
npm ERR! path /Users/chris/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/chris/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/chris/.npm/_logs/2017-08-15T05_54_54_452Z-debug.log

[ReagentX]

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.3.0_1/bin/node',
1 verbose cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli   'run',
1 verbose cli   'generate-docs' ]
2 info using npm@5.3.0
3 info using node@v8.3.0
4 verbose config Skipping project config: /Users/chris/.npmrc. (matches userconfig)
5 verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/chris/package.json'
6 verbose cwd /Users/chris
7 verbose Darwin 16.7.0
8 verbose argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.3.0_1/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "generate-docs"
9 verbose node v8.3.0
10 verbose npm  v5.3.0
11 error path /Users/chris/package.json
12 error code ENOENT
13 error errno -2
14 error syscall open
15 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/chris/package.json'
16 error enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
17 verbose exit [ -2, true ]

[ReagentX]

Also, this logged when I ran npm install --save demo file:

npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/chris/package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/chris/package.json'
npm WARN chris No description
npm WARN chris No repository field.
npm WARN chris No README data
npm WARN chris No license field.

[switz]

You have to clone the repo and cd into it. You're running all of these commands in your home directory ~.

If you want to build the docs, you'll need the repo, but if you just want to use demofile run:

$ mkdir demotest
$ cd demotest
$ npm init # follow instructions
$ npm i demofile --save

Then create a file (index.js) and import the package const demofile = require('demofile');.

[saul]

Thanks @switz - that's correct.