Can't get MM to start, says it can't find electron, then electron won't start

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 magigcmirror… u are installing the dependencies for that app

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil still says

electron: not found

Could this be because it says that node_modules is missing? I did both npm install and npm install electron@3.0.10 in MagicMirror.

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 npm install from inside the magicmirror folder should have created node_modules (thats its (npm) job)

erase MagicMirror folder,
download again
and then cd MagicMirror and then npm install

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil another error, it says

npm ERR! file /home/pi/MagicMirror/package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near ' '
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package. json data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 did u download the MagicMirror folder over again?

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil yes I deleted the contents of the old folder and changed the name and redownloaded MagicMirror

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 ok, from the /home/pi folder lets start again

cd ~

rm -rf whatever_the_old_folder_name_is
rm -rf MagicMirror

git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git

cd MagicMirror
npm install

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil okay I did all of that and it said it cloned and everthing, and then it rebooted during the install, now what? lol

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 should not reboot

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil oh it reboots everytime I install magicmirror, how do I prevent this? because it always reboots like 1/3 of the way through the progress bar and it always did it so I thought it was normal lol can I stop this? I have a pi 3+ btw