Error command 'dev' not working

[Jasminahmad]

I have a problem in launching Quasar projects that I didn't create. I want to open a quasar project that I have cloned from Gittea and I used "npx quasar dev" and it doesnt work. If I create the project, it will work. Is there any other commands to launch the project that haven't been created by me?

[suleimanas]

whats the error message/s?
which version is it?
did you npm install the project's packages?

[Jasminahmad]

The error said, Error unknown command "dev"
My quasar version has been upgraded to 3.3.3
How do I know whether npm has installed the project's packages?

[Jasminahmad]

This was in package.json file. I am not sure if there is anything else that must be added. I even compared to the another project's package.json file that I have created and I seem to not know what's the problem.

{
"name": "ticket-system",
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "Ticketing system",
"productName": "Ticket System",
"author": "Jasmin",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"test": "echo "No test specified" && exit 0"
},
"dependencies": {
"@quasar/extras": "^1.0.0",
"quasar": "^2.6.0",
"vue": "^3.0.0",
"vue-router": "^4.0.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@quasar/app-vite": "^1.0.0",
"autoprefixer": "^10.4.2"
},
"engines": {
"node": "^18 || ^16 || ^14.19",
"npm": ">= 6.13.4",
"yarn": ">= 1.21.1"
}
}

[suleimanas]

did you run: (npm install) ?

[Jasminahmad]

I just did and I was told to install to the latest version and I finally can open it! Thank you for helping!

[suleimanas]

remember (npx quasar ...) only helps you run quasar commands without the need to install @quasar/cli globally but you still need to install your local packages.

[Jasminahmad]

Alright noted. Thank you so much. Really appreciate your help!

[mcasto]

Okay ... I normally use a Mac. I developed an Electron app on my Mac and want to build it for Win. I pulled out my rarely-used Windows laptop and installed Quasar with "npm i -g @quasar/cli"

I get the "unknown command 'dev'" error.

I first got it when I tried to run my Electron app, but I also get it when, from the command line, I type: "quasar dev -h"

Same for quasar build -h ... I get: Error Unknown command "build"

It's a completely fresh install of quasar.

Here's the output of my quasar info (which works fine):

Operating System Windows_NT(10.0.22621) - win32/x64
NodeJs 18.17.1

Global packages
NPM 10.1.0
yarn 1.22.19
@quasar/cli 2.2.3
@quasar/icongenie Not installed
cordova Not installed

Networking
Host mcasto
Wi-Fi 192.168.0.113

[shershen08]

+1 having same issue on mac

[disarticulate]

same issue, ran npm install, am inside vscodium linuxserver.io which runs a vm.

quasar info:

Operating System        Linux(6.8.0-53-generic) - linux/x64
NodeJs                  22.14.0

Global packages    
  NPM                   10.9.2
  yarn                  Not installed
  pnpm                  Not installed
  bun                   Not installed
  @quasar/cli           2.4.1
  @quasar/icongenie     Not installed
  cordova               Not installed

Networking         
  Host                  028d90ae4e9e
  eth0                  172.20.0.2

---
#docker-compose.yaml
services:
  vscodium:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/vscodium:latest
    container_name: vscodium
    cap_add:
      - IPC_LOCK
    security_opt:
      - seccomp:unconfined #optional
    environment:
      - CUSTOM_USER=test
      - PASSWORD=test
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Chicago/America
      - SUBFOLDER=/vscode/
      - INSTALL_PACKAGES=nodejs|git|npm
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - /home/app:/home/app
      - ./init.d:/custom-cont-init.d:ro
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
      - 3001:3001
    shm_size: "1gb"
    restart: unless-stopped

these containers can run a script to prep the dev space:

#!/bin/bash

#0_init.sh

#apt install -y npm nodejs git
npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
npm install -g @quasar/cli

export PATH="$(~/.npm-global/bin):$PATH"


curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"

nvm install 20

nvm alias default 20

nvm use 20