Video.js: Installing via npm is not work

[RavinduSachintha]

Description

When try to install the video.js via npm according to the official website provided method, it wasn't install perfectly.

Steps to reproduce

1. Execute the following command in the terminal.

npm install video.js

Results

Expected

Successful video.js installation with complete file structure that you have mentioned in website.

Actual

It's installed package-lock.json file and some sort of node_modules. But there isn't even package.json file.

Error output

incomplete file structure.

Additional Information

versions

videojs

browsers

OSes

Ubuntu

plugins

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[gkatsev]

I just tried it and I'm not seeing that behavior. I do see a package.json. Also, our npm package isn't meant to match what's in source code as we do a lot of builds at publish time and mostly just publish what's built.
Did npm finish the install successfully? What version of npm were you using? Can you post the output of ls in node_modules/video.js?

[OwenEdwards]

I think the Getting Started page is a little confusing.

Running npm install video.js in an empty directory does throw some errors about ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'package.json', and the Distributions directory structure shown is placed under node_modules/video.js/dist/, not under Video.js.

(Also, the .zip file is no longer part of the NPM distribution, so that's not in the Distribution directory.)

@RavinduSachintha, if you look in node_modules/video.js/dist/, do you see the files you're looking for?

[gkatsev]

Ah, yeah, we should do a better job at targeting those that aren't familiar with node projects.
If npm install was run in a blank directory, it's possible that the node_modules folder is actually a folder up, so, ../node_modules/video.js/dist/

[RavinduSachintha]

Thank you guys for helping. I just misunderstood the file location.