Installing npm package fails with 404

Question

Using the command prompt, I am trying to install angular CLI and it fails. I have npm version 5.5.1 and node version v8.9.1. I am trying to install angular cli using the com

Answer 1

Alternative, another option to avoid 404 npm error

check if your terminal is in the root directory, if not your npm scripts will not execute because it will not be able to see the package.json