How to fix the start script missing error in Npm

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to fix the start script missing error when running an npm start command.

If you don’t specify a start script inside the package.json file and trying to use npm start command, you will see the following error in your terminal.

➜  react-track git:(master) ✗ npm start

npm ERR! missing script: start

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/saigowtham/.npm/_logs/2020-04-26T08_52_43_410Z-debug.log

To fix this error, you need to add a “start” script to your package.json file and open the project root directory in your terminal before running the npm start command.

Example:

"scripts": {
     "start": "node app.js"
},

Here, I added a start script app.js, in your case it will be some other file.