Module 'googleapis' is not listed as dependency in package.json

Question

Step 1: I try to add googleapis as dependency and got the error

$ npm install googleapis
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '[home]/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '[home]/package.json'
npm WARN saly No description
npm WARN saly No repository field.
npm WARN saly No README data
npm WARN saly No license field.

Question: Why is it looking for the file in my home directory as opposed to my project directory? Especially since I am making the call from my project directory.

Step 2: I misunderstood the error and proceeded to deploying my project and that's where I got the error

Module 'googleapis' is not listed as dependency in package.json

Step 3: I now try npm i googleapis --save but I still get the same errors as in steps 1 and 2.

I'm just doing exactly as here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/googleapis — salyela, Jun 12 '19 at 17:50
did you run `npm init` in your project directly to create a `package.json` file? — Mike Diglio, Jun 12 '19 at 18:03
yeah I just did that and nothing changed. I followed suggestions as here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9484829/npm-cant-find-package-json/37687665#37687665 — salyela, Jun 12 '19 at 18:09
In VSCode I do see a package.json file and inside it I see the dependency listed as `"dependencies": { "@google-cloud/firestore": "^2.2.0", "googleapis": "^40.0.0" }` So I don't know why deploy is not working — salyela, Jun 12 '19 at 18:11

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '19 at 21:23

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It seems that the problem was due to that I forgot to cd into the functions directory before I tried to install the dependencies.

answered Jun 12 '19 at 21:23

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