Launching a project with npm and Sanity, and resolving issues with loading and closing processes.

Good morning 👋 I’m a npm noob and think I’m launching my project the wrong way, I’ve been running

npm run dev

from the root directory of my project, but my Studio is stuck loading — any idea what I’m doing wrong?

This is what’s in my console

Did you cd into

studio

? and then type in

sanity start

sorry, I’m a Terminal noob too 😬

Seems like you don’t have the cli tools installed on this machine, maybe have a look at the first step in https://www.sanity.io/docs/getting-started to see if getting those installed will help?

this did it, thank you so much!

Is the general process1. running

npm dev run

in the root folder, then2. running

sanity start

in the studio folder?or is there a different way I should be going about launching the project?

Also, how do I close everything? I usually just close the Terminal window but that feels like probably not the right thing to do
😬

Also I seem to have generated two blank files called

sanity

and

npm

which is probably a mistake on my part? 😆 Or are those important?

you can hit

ctrl-c

to stop the processes you start, but the effect will often be the same with closing the terminal.
I don’t know if you need to run

npm dev run

, it depends on what is in your

package.json

in that folder 🙂 It could be that it starts your frontend application?
the blank files sound like a mistake, yes
🙂 Again, its hard to tell you “you can delete them” from here, as I know nothing of what your application is or does, but you could for instance try to move them to a different folder, or rename them, and see if everything still works before deleting them. (Or if you use

git

for version control, you can ensure you have them in a commit you can roll back to if it ends up breaking something if they are deleted)

Also, , in your particular setup, if you run

npm run dev

in your

/web

directory, it'll start your 11ty frontend. If you run

sanity start

in your

/studio

directory, it'll start your Sanity Studio.