NPM not creating .bin directory

Question

I'm using npm v1.4.4 and node v0.10.25 on Mac OS X 10.9.2.

I've recently upgraded node and npm, and now npm install is no longer creating the .bin directory in node_modules.

I've deleted node_modules, tried npm install again, but the directory and binaries are never created.

Does anybody have any ideas as to why this is happening?

Here is my package.json:

{   "name": "redacted",   "author": {},   "description": "redacted",   "dependencies": {   },   "devDependencies": {     "karma": "*",     "karma-coverage": "0.1.2",     "karma-junit-reporter": "*",     "karma-coffee-preprocessor": "~0.1",     "grunt": "^0.4.2",     "grunt-contrib-requirejs": "^0.4.3",     "grunt-contrib-concat": "^0.3.0",     "grunt-contrib-sass": "^0.7.2",     "grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "^0.2.0",     "grunt-contrib-cssmin": "^0.7.0",     "grunt-contrib-coffee": "^0.10.1",     "grunt-contrib-uglify": "^0.3.3",     "grunt-contrib-jst": "^0.5.1",     "grunt-contrib-qunit": "^0.4.0",     "grunt-contrib-jshint": "^0.8.0",     "grunt-contrib-watch": "^0.5.3",     "grunt-contrib-jasmine": "^0.6.1",     "grunt-contrib-compress": "^0.6.1",     "grunt-contrib-handlebars": "^0.6.1",     "grunt-contrib-less": "^0.9.0",     "grunt-contrib": "^0.9.0"   } } 

Answer 1

I know this is an old post but I experienced the same issue recently. I had copied files from an existing project including package.json and package-lock.json. The package-lock.json was what prevented the node_module/.bin directory from being created. The solution was to delete the node_modules directory and package-lock.json and run npm install again

Answer 2

Seems that all your dependencies are dev dependencies. Could you see if your NODE_ENV environment variable is set to production now? If yes you will need to change it back.

Also, any error happened during installation?