Going back to a project in WSL that's built using NPM, npm run not working?

I'm absolutely sure I'm missing something as it shouldn't be this difficult to just carry on from where I left off, suuurely? All I've done here is open WSL, cd into my directory,

code .

code .

to open vsc, then the terminal is screenshotted here.

Jochem•8/8/23, 7:33 PM

what's in your package.json?

Jochem•8/8/23, 7:33 PM

also, isn't your project one level down from there in or something?

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

To under stand what you are running like Jochem said. You have npm run scripts in your package.json if you look at it you will see the commands you have avail

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

ewww webpack >.>;;

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

not my choice!!

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

lol everything is a choice

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

scripts is weird

Jochem•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

you were using vite yesterday though, right?

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:35 PM

So you don't have a start script

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:36 PM

yeah I have a vite version im doing with my mentor where we're using a render function to control state

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:36 PM

so doing run start = nothing

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:36 PM

this version is just the carbon copy of top

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:36 PM

all you have is

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:36 PM

hmmm ok

Jochem•8/8/23, 7:36 PM

are you expecting vite to work in the webpack project?

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:36 PM

probably not, but we haven't tried tbh

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:37 PM

you shouldn't xD

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:37 PM

Vite uses Rollup no need for webpack but I have seen some hacky ways to use webpack with vite. So it is possible

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:37 PM

oh sorry yeah, i did see rollup in the config

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:37 PM

so I need to replace scripts content with "index.js" I imagine?

b1mind•8/8/23, 7:38 PM

yea so in Vite* Rollup is doing what webpack would do.

Jochem•8/8/23, 7:38 PM

I think what happened, is last night you created a new project using vite, and you can run in there to serve it. That's a feature of the project, not of the fact that you've installed Vite on your PC. The old project will still work just the same way it always did

CDLOP•8/8/23, 7:39 PM

So in a nutshell, we did the vite project with your help setting it up. Then I created a new directory, did the npm init, npm install etc... and set the next project up. it seemed to work fine, npm run dev worked, it loaded in localhost, everything was fine.

Jochem•8/8/23, 7:39 PM

Basically, npm looks at the folder you're in, then checks package.json for what it can do. Each project gets its own package.json to describe dependencies and the scripts that you can run. Installing vite and creating a new project with it, keeps vite enclosed in that project, so anything that works in that project will work only in that project