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Error MSB3073 The command “npm run build” exited with code 1 – Visual Studio

Recently I was trying to build a complex project which included also node js code and was deployable to IIS. The error I faced on visual studio during the build was the below.

"npm run build" exited with code 1 - Visual Studio 
"npm install" exited with code 1 - Visual Studio

both of which were misleading.

In order to locate the error I navigated on the Node project and tried to build using

npm run build

Command line never lies. I was able to determine that webpack was not installed.

In order to resolve I executed:

npm install -g webpack
npm install -g webpack-cli