I have this problem when I want boot Angular project tried install plugins { "name": "portal-app", "version": "0.0.0", "license": "MIT", "scripts": { "ng": "ng", "start": "ng serve --proxy-config proxy.config.json", "build": "ng build", "test": "ng test", "lint": "ng lint", "e2e": "ng e2e" }, "private": true, "dependencies": { "@angular/animations": "^5.0.0", "@angular/common": "^5.0.0", "@angular/compiler": "^5.0.0", "@angular/core": "^5.0.0", "@angular/forms": "^5.0.0", "@angular/http": "^5.0.0", "@angular/platform-browser": "^5.0.0", "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^5.0.0", "@angular/router": "^5.0.0", "bootstrap": "^3.3.7", "core-js": "^2.4.1", "rxjs": "^5.5.2", "zone.js": "^0.8.14" }, "devDependencies": { "@angular/cli": "^1.6.3", "@angular/compiler-cli": "^5.0.0", "@angular/language-service": "^5.0.0", "@types/jasmine": "~2.5.53", "@types/jasminewd2": "~2.0.2", "@types/node": "~6.0.60", "codelyzer": "^4.0.1", "jasmine-core": "~2.6.2", "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.1.0", "karma": "~1.7.0", "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.1.1", "karma-cli": "~1.0.1", "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "^1.2.1", "karma-jasmine": "~1.1.0", "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2", "protractor": "~5.1.2", "ts-node": "~3.2.0", "tslint": "~5.7.0", "typescript": "~2.4.2" } } You have to be inside an angular-cli project in order to use the serve command. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! portal-app@0.0.0 start: ng serve --proxy-config proxy.config.json npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the portal-app@0.0.0 start script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. npm WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install? npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2019-04-24T06_32_19_277Z-debug.log Process finished with exit code 1 Continue reading...