in the documentation of cookiecutter-django relating to SASS Compiling and Live Reload it's stated that I only have to enter "npm start" (after installing npm of course) in the main project folder to enable Live-Reload and SASS compiling. I was wondering how this should be possible without a package.json file but tried it nevertheless, maybe some hidden thing I did not know about. But npm init of course told me that a package.json was missing. I initialized a new project with bootstrap compilation and gulp enabled, same outcome. Still no package.json. Am I missing some key-point? Or is the documentation in this case maybe incomplete? Where do I get the required package.json from? :)
In the project generation at the beginning, you probably chose "None" on the "js_task_runner" step. If you chose "Gulp" here, it will generate gulpfile.js and package.json file, after which you'll be able to use npm install.