I'm having this error while trying to start a vue-cli. The installation ran smoothly:
villas:vue villas$ npm start
npm ERR! missing script: start
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/villas/.npm/_logs/2017-08-25T00_39_17_837Z-debug.log
And there in the log file:
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'start' ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose stack Error: missing script: start
4 verbose stack at run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/run-script.js:151:19)
4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/run-script.js:61:5
4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:114:5
4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:401:5
4 verbose stack at checkBinReferences_ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:356:45)
4 verbose stack at final (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:399:3)
4 verbose stack at then (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:159:5)
4 verbose stack at ReadFileContext.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:331:20)
4 verbose stack at ReadFileContext.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:78:16)
4 verbose stack at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterOpen [as oncomplete] (fs.js:366:13)
5 verbose cwd /Users/villas/Sites/vue
6 verbose Darwin 16.7.0
7 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
8 verbose node v6.11.2
9 verbose npm v5.3.0
10 error missing script: start
11 verbose exit [ 1, true ]