title: Cannot start Electron application - missing package.json
body: <p>I'm currently doing a Python project where I want to display my results in an Electron application. I have seen a demo video on YouTube on how to set up Electron on a Mac. The video showed 3 simple steps to be executed in the terminal:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start
  cd electron-quick-start
  npm install &amp;&amp; npm start
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I first ran the above commands it worked fine for me. I was able to start the Electron application. </p>
  
  <p>But when I tried to re-start the application using the command <code>npm start</code> after going into the <code>electron-quick-start</code> directory, I am not able to open the application.</p>
  
  <p>I am continuously getting an error message as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(base) Viveks-MacBook-Pro:electron-quick-start vivekchowdary$ npm start
  npm ERR! path /Users/vivekchowdary/package.json
  npm ERR! code ENOENT
  npm ERR! errno -2
  npm ERR! syscall open
  npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/vivekchowdary/package.json'
  npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
  npm ERR! enoent 
  
  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /Users/vivekchowdary/.npm/_logs/2019-04-19T12_55_01_157Z-debug.log
  (base) Viveks-MacBook-Pro:electron-quick-start vivekchowdary$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't know what it means? But I just want to open the Electron application. </p>