I am facing this error when running a React project via Vite. I've tried deleting package-lock.json and reinstalling the npm modules folder with npm i, npm run dev, npm run start, and npm start. What am I doing wrong?
Node.js and npm versions:
C:\\Users\\lenove\>node -v
v24.13.0
C:\\Users\\lenove\>npm -v
11.7.0
The error:
PS E:\Desktop Folders\Development\Development\Java Development\1. Java Basics & DSA\Java Backend Developer\Miscellenious\HTML CSS JS Basics\React JS Basics\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\lib\1\_1_vite> npm run dev
> 1-vite@0.0.0 dev
> vite
The system cannot find the path specified.
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1424
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'E:\Desktop Folders\Development\Development\Java Development\vite\bin\vite.js'
at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1421:15)
at defaultResolveImpl (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1059:19)
at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1064:22)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1227:37)
at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:328:14)
at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:245:24)
at Module.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:154:5)
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:33:47 {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: []
}
Node.js v24.13.0