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Could not find a required file. Name: index.html

I have been working on this React project, since a few months without having come across this error. I haven't made any changes in the location of the index.html file in the project tree, which is why I can't explain this error.

I have tried the following measures without success:

  1. changing the location of public folder
  2. changing the location of contents of public folder
  3. changing the location of package-lock.json
  4. changing the location of package.json
  5. npm install
  6. npm install react-scripts --save

Please find the error displayed in the terminal: 

Could not find a required file.  
Name: index.html  
Searched in: /Users/Sujay/Documents/Documents/Learn Web Development the Hard Way/lacapsule/project/Dark Sky Map Bitbucket/darkskymap_frontend/public  
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE  
npm ERR! errno 1  
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `react-scripts start`  
npm ERR! Exit status 1  
npm ERR!   
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start 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/Sujay/.npm/_logs/2019-08-06T07_12_22_366Z-debug.log

Expected result : React project should launch without any issue.   
Actual result: Error message in terminal mentioned above.
Solution

  • index.html has been moved/removed from the /public directory

    Does your project have an index.html file in the public directory?

    If not you can get the one that Create React App uses here

    It should be in <your project root>/public/index.html

    If you are using Git for version control it will be able to tell you if something was moved or removed.

    Run git status to view changed files