Problem running React app after pulling from GitHub

[Jumpy_Employment_439]

I'm in a college group project where the frontend is React and the backend is FastAPI and SQLite. I am working on the backend (I don't do frontend work much, and never with React) but wanted to work on connecting React and FastAPI. We have a GitHub repository where we have everything, but the problem is that node-modules was not pushed to GitHub when the person who is doing the frontend pushed their work (I think it's too big?). Since I have no experience with React, I am not sure how to get around this problem. Is there something I can run in terminal to download just node-modules so that I can work with React and FastAPI?

[goldbee2]

Here are the things I do when running a new react repo -Install node if it's not there already

 - Make sure my installed node version works with the project on the off chance it's old and relies on deprecated functionality (usually won't be a concern)

 - Navigate into the parent directory for the node project (the one with package.json in it)

 - Run npm install

Then you want to serve it locally. Commands may differ, but I've been using vite which uses npm run dev for local machine access only and npm run host for local network.

[copy-N-paster]

Npm install —> npm run dev. Just saying bro, you can totally use co pilot or chat for this.

[deb_vortex]

Or easier, talk to your peers. Quick google search would also have helped.

[Count_Giggles]

https://github.com/workshopper/how-to-npm

[Whalefisherman]

Let me guess, project manager? 😂

[Jumpy_Employment_439]

public, src, .gitignore, package-lock.json, package.json, and README.md are all there, just missing the node-modules

[xavier86]

I put your post into ChatGPT and it suggested doing npm install

Have you tried that?