I started up an existing full stack project on a new ubuntu installation. I ran npm install and bower install and on grunt serve I kept getting a similar error to this:

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory

The error seemed to be triggered by node-http2 specifically.

I tried several approaches, I upgraded node, upgraded grunt. I uninstalled and reinstalled. Cleared cache.

What I finally realised the problem was, I needed to install yo. The project had been created using the yeoman generator.

Checklist:

• Make sure npm is installed
• Make sure bower is installed
• Make sure grunt is installed
• Make sure yo is installed

These are some additional commands I ran

Clear npm cache and reinstall npm

sudo npm cache clean -f

sudo npm install -g n

sudo n stable