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[regoutl]

Hello,

I am new to tauri / npm. After cloning my tauri repo to a new machine, i did run into this

cargo tauri dev
    Running BeforeDevCommand (npm run dev)
    Info Watching [...]/src-tauri for changes...
npm error Missing script: "dev"
npm error
npm error To see a list of scripts, run:
npm error   npm run
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: [...]/.npm/_logs/2025-01-21T00_06_36_866Z-debug-0.log
    Error The "beforeDevCommand" terminated with a non-zero status code.

the problem was that i had initialized npm in the src-tauri folder too. i.e. my folder structure was like this

ls *

frontend:
app.jsx    components  index.html  main.jsx  node_modules  package.json  package-lock.json     public  vite.config.js

src-tauri:
build.rs  capabilities  Cargo.lock  Cargo.toml  gen  icons  node_modules  package.json  package-lock.json  public  README.md  src  target  tauri.conf.json

The cargo tauri build apparently finds any subfolder with a package.json. It did hit the src-tauri one, which has no scripts defined. Hence the error.

It would be beginner friendly to have some more explicit error e.g. "tauri found 2 package.json in subfolders and cannot choose which one. You should only have npm in frontend folder"

[regoutl]

note : tauri-cli 2.2.5; ubuntu