Error: Cannot find module 'package.json' #1898

ThomasKnobloch · 2016-08-30T14:21:20Z

OS? Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)
Mac OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan)
Versions. Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run
in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:
angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.11-webpack.8
node: 6.5.0
os: darwin x64
Repro steps. Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you
do on your code? etc.
clone from repository
npm install --save-dev angular-cli@webpack
ng version
The log given by the failure. Normally this include a stack trace and some
more information.

Cannot find module 'package.json'
Error: Cannot find module 'package.json'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverAtPath (/Users/thomasknobloch/workspace/OXEWbm2/wbm/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:205:20)
    at AddonDiscovery.<anonymous> (/Users/thomasknobloch/workspace/OXEWbm2/wbm/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:114:26)
    at Array.map (native)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverFromDependencies (/Users/thomasknobloch/workspace/OXEWbm2/wbm/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:109:68)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverProjectAddons (/Users/thomasknobloch/workspace/OXEWbm2/wbm/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:48:29)
    at Project.discoverAddons (/Users/thomasknobloch/workspace/OXEWbm2/wbm/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:353:40)

Mention any other details that might be useful.
ng version works fine outside of my project (using the global installation of angular-cli).

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ThomasKnobloch · 2016-08-31T07:36:50Z

The problem seems to be in the module ember-cli, the package child_process in the devDependencies of my package.json cannot be resolved.
There is no more issue when I delete this module in the package.json file of my project.

filipesilva · 2016-09-21T00:53:26Z

We had the problem a while ago, but it's fixed in the latest versions.

CoreyCole · 2016-10-16T11:55:06Z

It's happening to me currently on:
angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.16
node: v6.8.1
npm: 3.10.8

I've tried wiping node modules and reinstalling the cli after a fresh install of node and npm. Still no luck

filipesilva · 2016-10-17T17:13:54Z

@CoreyCole what happened to you was probably fixed by #2178, available in beta.17.

EpicButterz · 2016-11-03T21:20:55Z

I'm having this same problem on beta 18.

Cannot find module 'package.json'
Error: Cannot find module 'package.json'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverAtPath (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:205:20)
    at AddonDiscovery.<anonymous> (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:114:26)
    at Array.map (native)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverFromDependencies (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:109:68)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverProjectAddons (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:48:29)
    at Project.discoverAddons (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:353:40)
    at Project.initializeAddons (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:372:8)
    at Project.eachAddonCommand (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:425:10)
    at module.exports (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/lookup-command.js:33:13)
    at CLI.<anonymous> (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/cli.js:34:26)
    at tryCatch (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:538:12)
    at invokeCallback (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:553:13)
    at publish (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:521:7)
    at flush (/Users/ewbutterfield/vs/pct-service/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:2373:5)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.18
node: v6.9.1
npm: 3.10.8

filipesilva · 2016-11-04T17:43:57Z

This doesn't seem to happen to everyone, and I can't repro. Will leave it open for community help.

AmitMY · 2016-11-04T18:13:55Z

Try
'Npm install --save http'
It will add "http" on version 0.0.0
This reliably reproduces the problem
Tried 3 times, and that is the error.

I can send a video if you want.

filipesilva · 2016-11-04T20:01:05Z

@AmitMY got it, thank you!

kamik@T460p MINGW64 /D/sandbox/master-proj (master)
$ ng version
angular-cli: local (v1.0.0-beta.19, branch: fix-broken-e2e-tests)
node: 6.5.0
os: win32 x64

kamik@T460p MINGW64 /D/sandbox/master-proj (master)
$ npm install http --save
master-proj@0.0.0 D:\sandbox\master-proj
+-- UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY @types/request@0.0.30
`-- http@0.0.0

npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /angular-cli/chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.0.15
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.0.15
npm WARN angularfire2@2.0.0-beta.5 requires a peer of @types/request@0.0.30 but none was installed.

kamik@T460p MINGW64 /D/sandbox/master-proj (master)
$ ng version
Cannot find module 'package.json'
Error: Cannot find module 'package.json'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
    at Function.Module._load (D:\work\angular-cli\lib\bootstrap-local.js:64:22)
    at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverAtPath (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\models\addon-discovery.js:205:20)
    at AddonDiscovery.<anonymous> (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\models\addon-discovery.js:114:26)
    at Array.map (native)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverFromDependencies (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\models\addon-discovery.js:109:68)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverProjectAddons (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\models\addon-discovery.js:48:29)
    at Project.discoverAddons (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\models\project.js:353:40)
    at Project.initializeAddons (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\models\project.js:372:8)
    at Project.eachAddonCommand (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\models\project.js:425:10)
    at module.exports (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\cli\lookup-command.js:33:13)
    at CLI.<anonymous> (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\angular-cli\lib\cli\cli.js:34:26)
    at tryCatch (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:538:12)
    at invokeCallback (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:553:13)
    at publish (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:521:7)
    at flush (D:\work\angular-cli\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:2373:5)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

filipesilva · 2016-11-04T20:02:12Z

As far as I can tell, it's something that is broken with ember-cli's addon discovery in the specific version we use.

chris-gaona · 2016-11-18T07:09:45Z

Just an FYI for anyone else dealing with this issue. I received a similar error message when I would run any angular cli commands (ng serve, ng version etc.) saying Error: Cannot find module 'package.json. I found out that the issue was caused by using a bad npm package (crypto), although I'm not entirely sure why that would have caused the error. When I removed that package from my package.json file, all the angular cli commands worked perfectly. I'm now using bcrypt instead.

gglee89 · 2016-11-18T16:11:45Z

Was this issue solved? :(

I'm getting the same issue on:

$ node --version
v5.1.0
$ npm -v
4.0.2
$ npm show angular-cli version
1.0.0-beta.20-4

This is my console output:

$ ng version
Cannot find module 'package.json'
Error: Cannot find module 'package.json'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:289:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:366:17)
    at require (module.js:385:17)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverAtPath (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:205:20)
    at AddonDiscovery.<anonymous> (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:114:26)
    at Array.map (native)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverFromDependencies (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:109:68)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverProjectAddons (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:48:29)
    at Project.discoverAddons (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:353:40)
    at Project.initializeAddons (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:372:8)
    at Project.eachAddonCommand (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/models/project.js:425:10)
    at module.exports (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/lookup-command.js:33:13)
    at CLI.<anonymous> (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/angular-cli/lib/cli/cli.js:34:26)
    at tryCatch (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:538:12)
    at invokeCallback (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:553:13)
    at publish (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:521:7)
    at flush (/Users/giwoogustavolee/Documents/proof-gis-map/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:2373:5)
    at doNTCallback0 (node.js:430:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:359:13)

MarkySparky · 2016-11-29T09:46:42Z

I had the same issue. I removed the http package from my dev dependencies and it all started to work.

beeman · 2016-12-20T16:45:47Z

This happened to me when I made a copy of a project and ran ng serve in the copy. My solution was to nuke node_modules and run npm install.

I can not reproduce this with a new version of the app though.

WeslleyDeSouza · 2016-12-21T18:09:58Z

i had the same problem with FS from nodejs
so i had to remove fs package from my dev dependencies and it all started to work again.
"fs": "0.0.1-security",

Caspain · 2016-12-31T17:26:05Z

After much reading and analysis, the crypto package cause ember-cli to panic. Just remove it npm uninstall crypto --save

Caspain · 2017-01-07T15:42:54Z

There seems to be a correlation with streaming associated packages

rikkouri · 2017-01-10T20:05:12Z

Hi @filipesilva ,

I'm quite new to this world of nodejs/angular etc. but hopefully this helps diagnose a fix...

I found that running strace highlighted a lot of stat syscalls failing towards the end of its execution. It seems that ng is looking for a directory called node_modules/package.json/ which certainly didn't exist in my project. However I did notice that package-json does exist.

Adding a symlink between the two seem to fix the issue for me. Could this be a simple typo in a recent release?

Does this help?

ln -s node_modules/package-json/ node_modules/package.json

strace output for reference:

$ strace ng serve

...
open("/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/package.json/package.json", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/package.json/index.js", 0x7fffc0f829b0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/package.json/index.json", 0x7fffc0f829b0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/package.json/index.node", 0x7fffc0f829b0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...
write(9, "\33[31mCannot find module 'package"..., 44Cannot find module 'package.json'
) = 44
write(9, "Error: Cannot find module 'packa"..., 2041Error: Cannot find module 'package.json'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverAtPath (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:205:20)
    at AddonDiscovery.<anonymous> (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:114:26)
    at Array.map (native)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverFromDependencies (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:109:68)
    at AddonDiscovery.discoverProjectAddons (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/addon-discovery.js:48:29)
    at Project.discoverAddons (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/project.js:296:40)
    at Project.initializeAddons (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/project.js:315:8)
    at Project.eachAddonCommand (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/models/project.js:368:10)
    at module.exports (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/cli/lookup-command.js:33:13)
    at CLI.<anonymous> (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/angular-cli/ember-cli/lib/cli/cli.js:43:26)
    at tryCatch (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:538:12)
    at invokeCallback (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:553:13)
    at publish (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:521:7)
    at flush (/home/rikkouri/WebstormProjects/issue-1898/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:2373:5)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
) = 2041
...

filipesilva · 2017-01-10T20:24:07Z

Fixed by #3695

RanaAbdullah2017 · 2017-12-18T22:39:50Z

[ERROR] Error with .\node_modules\ionic-angular\package.json file: FILE_NOT_FOUND
[ERROR] Error with .\node_modules@ionic\app-scripts\package.json file: FILE_NOT_FOUND
I have an above Error when I write this command
ionic start Myapp tabs
Can u help me to solve this problem.

beeman · 2017-12-19T06:08:00Z

@RanaAbdullah2017 this is the Angular CLI issue thread, please look for the Ionic support channels when you have problems running Ionic.

gabrielfrischer · 2018-01-10T00:09:52Z

I like turtles

saidevops014 · 2018-04-04T09:39:38Z

at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)
Error: Cannot find module '/usr/local/share/.pm2/package.json'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:536:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:466:25)
at Module.require (module.js:579:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at getPublicUrl (/usr/local/share/applications/cms-admin-ui/config/paths.js:26:19)
at Object. (/usr/local/share/applications/cms-admin-ui/config/paths.js:54:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)
at Module.load (module.js:554:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)

when i start the application through PM2 am facing this issue please give me the solution for this ..

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