title: Node npm start - cannot find module 'mongodb'
body: <p>I was following the Christopher Buechler tutorial (<a href="http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2013/node-express-mongo/)for" rel="nofollow">http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2013/node-express-mongo/)for</a> getting started with Node/Express/MongoDB. I made it to Step 6 where where I'm trying to display the userlist on the local host but I can't get npm start to work. </p>
  
  <p>When I do npm start it says 
  cannot find module 'mongodb'</p>
  
  <p>As per one helpful person in the comments:
   I had to do npm install mongo --save and npm install monk --save </p>
  
  <p>but this has not helped npm start to work.</p>
  
  <p>What's next? I retraced my footsteps to make sure I haven't missed anything.
  Here is what my command line says:</p>
  
  <p>C:\node>cd nodetest1</p>
  
  <p>C:\node\nodetest1>npm start</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>nodetest1@0.0.1 start C:\node\nodetest1
    node ./bin/www</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>module.js:340
      throw err;
            ^
  Error: Cannot find module 'mongodb'
      at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
      at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
      at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
      at require (module.js:380:17)
      at Object. (C:\node\nodetest1\app.js:9:13)
      at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
      at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
      at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
      at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
      at Module.require (module.js:364:17)</p>
  
  <p>npm ERR! nodetest1@0.0.1 start: <code>node ./bin/www</code>
  npm ERR! Exit status 8
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! Failed at the nodetest1@0.0.1 start script.
  npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the nodetest1 package,
  npm ERR! not with npm itself.
  npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
  npm ERR!     node ./bin/www
  npm ERR! You can get their info via:
  npm ERR!     npm owner ls nodetest1
  npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
  npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
  npm ERR! command "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\Program File
  s (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "start"
  npm ERR! cwd C:\node\nodetest1
  npm ERR! node -v v0.10.31
  npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.23
  npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
  npm ERR!     C:\node\nodetest1\npm-debug.log
  npm ERR! not ok code 0</p>
  
  <p>C:\node\nodetest1></p>
  
  <p>Thank you for the help!</p>