Laravel Compilation "Error: Cannot Find PATH/node_modules/laravel-mix/.."

Question

When I run commands like:

npm run dev 
npm run watch

to compile my project. I receive an error that says the laravel-mix directory does not exist.

Error: Cannot find module 'PATH/node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js'

I have deleted the node_modules directory and used npm install to attempt to get it to install properly and it still is not there. "Laravel-mix" is in the package.json file as a dependency, so to my knowledge running npm install or npm install laravel-mix should do the trick, but it isn't working. Any information about this would be greatly appreciated.

npm -v 6.14.1
node -v 12.16.2

Answer 1

Have you already run the following?

npm install laravel-mix
npm install cross-env