Lesson 8: Cant find packages and folders after running "Yarn add --dev html-server"..

[Benrockiee]

In lesson 8 of javascript and html, i Cant find package.json, node modules, yarn.lock as these files seems to be hidden even when ive installed these packages. Please how do i get rid of these error? I don't get to see whatever package i install and i might just clone the repository at once if this continues..

Also my prettierrc dont seem to be working and formatting codes.. Maybe that's because i cant also find prettier package..

[cromewar]

Hello @Benrockiee
This could happen when you have a node_modules folder on a upper hierarchy, for example let's suppose you have your project on Documents folder, but on your Home folder you already have node_modules, the command line will add the modules and the package.json to that instance on the Home folder, instead of creating a new one just for the project.

So please check out if you have those folders, and files already created on a upper level of your folder hierarchy.

Cheers.

[Benrockiee]

@cromewar Please how do i check?

[cromewar]

Well it depends a lot on which OS you are using?

[Benrockiee]

I use Windows but I'm on Linus environment..
Maybe I should clone the repo? I had such errors before but I just cloned..

Just that I wanna follow along the instructor.. but this issue is leaving me with no choice!

[mattjaf]

you could try running npm ls eslint to see if its installed elsewhere. You could manually open file explorer as well and go to your project folder and and press back

[cromewar]

Yeah @mattjaf is right that command should show you where are those files are ;)

[mattjaf]

make sure your in the proper directory when you run yarn