Dependencies were not found

• Laravel Mix Version: 1.2.0 (npm list --depth=0)
• Node Version (node -v): 8.1.4
• NPM Version (npm -v): 5.2.0
• OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73)

Description:

Although app.js and app.scss exist, NPM doesn’t compile.

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Install Laravel
2. Install NPM npm install
3. Run npm run dev or npm run production

Here is the output;

> @ dev /Users/burak/Sites/laravel5
> npm run development


> @ development /Users/burak/Sites/laravel5
> cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js

 95% emitting

 ERROR  Failed to compile with 2 errors                                                     16:49:26

These dependencies were not found:

* /Users/burak/Sites/laravel5/resources/assets/js/app.js in multi ./resources/assets/js/app.js ./resources/assets/sass/app.scss
* /Users/burak/Sites/laravel5/resources/assets/sass/app.scss in multi ./resources/assets/js/app.js ./resources/assets/sass/app.scss

To install them, you can run: npm install --save /Users/burak/Sites/laravel5/resources/assets/js/app.js /Users/burak/Sites/laravel5/resources/assets/sass/app.scss
     Asset     Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
/js/app.js  2.78 kB       0  [emitted]  /js/app
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! @ development: `cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ development script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/burak/.npm/_logs/2017-07-12T13_49_26_389Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! @ dev: `npm run development`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ dev script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/burak/.npm/_logs/2017-07-12T13_49_26_428Z-debug.log

[JeffreyWay]

@straube Clear your cache too. So try this:

1. npm -v shouldn’t return 5.2
2. rm -rf node_modules
3. npm cache clear
4. rm -rf package-lock.json
5. npm install

[straube]

Finally! It’s working! 🎉

A side note: I had to add the --force flag to get the cache cleared:

npm cache clear --force