"npm start" permission denied error: how to solve it?

Weird, strange or annoying errors are part of our lives as miserable developers we are. :)

To all of you beginners in the black art, I'll share a quick antidote for this curse.

Most of cases are related to a bad Node installation or maybe related to the modules your [wrongly] are copying and pasting from another project.

So, to solve this issue all you have to do is:

1. Remove Node
   If in OSX run brew uninstall node
2. Delete the dir node_modules
3. Install Node again globally
   Again, if in OSX run brew install -g node
4. Run npm install
5. Grab a cup of coffee
6. Run npm start and feel a smile growing slowly in your face

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Everything's fine now!

You can go back to your happy coding :)

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