npm package "watch" giving "no such file or directory" error

Question

Thanks in advance for helping me.

I want to create a product build on changes inside src directory. For that I used watch package of npm. Below is my "scripts" inside package.json

"scripts": {
    "webpack-dev-server": "webpack-dev-server",
    "dev": "watch 'npm run prod' src",
    "prod": "webpack --mode=production"
},

Now when I run npm run dev command. It gives me:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'E:\projects\chatapp\run'

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '20 at 10:25

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If you are using Windows, you have to use " instead of ' in dev command:

"dev": "watch \"npm run prod\" src"

It is also mentioned in github.com/mikeal/watch#examples:

Note: Because Windows users may need to use double quotes rather than single quotes they need to escape the them in npm scripts

answered Jan 09 '20 at 10:25

Ugnius Malūkas

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Thanks, it worked! Will this script remain cross-platform after escaping the quotes – abyshukla Mar 16 '20 at 10:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 20 '19 at 11:12

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Try with npm install maybe it solves or you can look at this thread as it seems similar issue How to resolve Nodejs: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory and more specifically to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/43260706/10928899

edited Apr 20 '19 at 11:12

marc_s

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answered Apr 18 '19 at 07:33

Besart Marku

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I tried by `npm install` and also tried to create prod and run folder. But not worked. – Apr 18 '19 at 07:51

npm package "watch" giving "no such file or directory" error

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