SolidJS•6mo ago

NPM Start Error + Beginner Question

I'm new to SolidStart, and I've only been doing web dev with NPM for a few months. Typically, in all of the projects I've been building, I use npm run dev to view my project on a local server. I watched Ryan's "SolidStart: The Shape of Frameworks to Come" stream on YouTube, and I noticed he was using npm run build and npm run start. I ran npm run build and then npm run start in my project, and I got the following error after running npm run start.

> start
> node ./.output/server/index.mjs

file:///Users/project-path/.output/server/chunks/nitro/node-server.mjs:6501
throw new Error("Should be provided by compiler");
      ^

Error: Should be provided by compiler
    at file:///Users/project-path/.output/server/chunks/nitro/node-server.mjs:6501:7
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:218:25)
    at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:329:24)
    at async loadESM (node:internal/process/esm_loader:28:7)
    at async handleMainPromise (node:internal/modules/run_main:113:12)

Node.js v21.4.0

> start
> node ./.output/server/index.mjs

file:///Users/project-path/.output/server/chunks/nitro/node-server.mjs:6501
throw new Error("Should be provided by compiler");
      ^

Error: Should be provided by compiler
    at file:///Users/project-path/.output/server/chunks/nitro/node-server.mjs:6501:7
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:218:25)
    at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:329:24)
    at async loadESM (node:internal/process/esm_loader:28:7)
    at async handleMainPromise (node:internal/modules/run_main:113:12)

Node.js v21.4.0

So my first question is, does anyone know what's wrong with this? My second question is: Where can I learn more about the difference between: npm run dev npm run build npm run start I think you "build" a project and then deploy that project with the output, but I'm not sure. Long story short, I'd like to be more capable of handling these errors, but I don't know where to start.
Thanks, Chris

2 Replies

brenelz•6mo ago

npm build and start is to run a production build. Locally you can mostly just use npm dev

ChrisThornham•6mo ago

Ok, thank you. I'll scrap the project and build a new one. I'm guessing that might fix the error.

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