Managing Packages with Npm - How to Use package.json, the Core of Any Node.js Project or npm Package

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In Introduction to the Managing Packages with npm Challenges it says to click the following link to create a glitch project for the following lessons:

https://glitch.com/#!/import/github/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-npm

or to clone the following repository:

https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-npm/

I did both and tried both for the next lesson How to Use package.json, the Core of Any Node.js Project or npm Package.

Cloning the repo and changing it just flat out doesn’t work. Here’s my repo on Github. If I put a link to my repo and submit the challenge, it fails with the message “package.json should have a valid “author” key” and this in the console:

it looks like the test is adding api into the filename and not even finding the package.json.

The issue with glitch is a bit trickier. It works fine on Firefox. However, if you use the original link at the start of the npm lessons to create your glitch project on Chrome, instead of getting a clone of the FCC project as your starter project, you get the base glitch app as your starter project. And, it doesn’t work for the tests. (This is the app I got, https://flashy-paperback.glitch.me, it’s not the FCC starter)

Note: If you originally create the Glitch app by clicking the “click here” on Chrome, the app that is created won’t work for submitting lessons regardless of browser. You have to actually “click here” on Firefox, then you get a Glitch project that will work for the lessons in Firefox or Chrome.

Note that the Chrome issue might be more a Glitch issue with Chrome on Manjaro, for some reason Glitch runs super-slow, lags out, and crashes on Chrome for me.

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• Browser Name: Chrome
• Browser Version: Version 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• Operating System: Manjaro Linux 17.1.10

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[darkbyte7]

Hi @P1xt , @anku255 I found a work around for the GitHub instructions. One can first create a feature branch named _api, make the required changes in package.json. Then navigate to the modified package.json and click on raw format. Copy the url for the raw format. In my case, it is _https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mihir-mahakalkar/boilerplate-npm/_api/package.json_. The last step is to delete /_api/package.json string from the above url, and then paste it in the challenge input field. In my case, it should be _https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mihir-mahakalkar/boilerplate-npm_

[hollidayeric]

@Sky020 - Thank you! I still had trouble with https://boilerplate-npm.hollidayeric.repl.run. I opened the editor in a new window and noticed the link is slightly different for the program. It is running and works to submit the lessons with this link: https://boilerplate-npm.hollidayeric.repl.co