“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

I ran into this problem after I cloned a git repository to a directory, renamed the directory, then tried to run npm install. I'm not sure what the problem was, but something was bungled. Deleting everything, re-cloning (this time with the correct directory name), and then running npm install resolved my issue.