Error: No build files found, please run `nuxt build` before launching `nuxt start

Question

I created a nuxt boilerplate using

vue-cli nuxt-community/starter-template

I also created another using

create-nuxt-app

. They both create my boilerplate properly. But anytime i try to build start my projects using

yarn start

I get this error:

Error: No build files found, please run nuxt build before launching `nuxt start

furthermore, whenever i run

nuxt build

I get this:

No command 'nuxt' found, did you mean: Command 'next' from package 'nmh' (universe) nuxt: command not found

but when i run

yarn build

it builds and running yarn start a second time works but without hot module reloading. I don't know what the problem is. I don't know whether my yarn is broken or nuxt. Please help!

Answer 1

nuxt build does not work from your command line, because you have not added it to your PATH variable. npm run build will look in your dependencies and use that instead.

To get a dev server running, use npm run dev. I believe by default it will start a dev server with live reload on port 3000. To build for production, use npm run build and npm run start.