“Couldn't read dependencies” error with npm

Question

I wanted to start a Node app and created a package.json file with a tutorial. Here is the json file:

{
    \"name\": \"Dashboard\",         


        

Answer 1

Recently, I've started to get an error:

npm ERR! install Couldn't read dependencies
npm ERR! Error: Invalid version: "1.0"

So, you may need to specify version of your package with 3 numbers, e.g. 1.0.0 instead of 1.0 if you get similar error.