I will show you here how to fix the error – [spfx-serve] the api entry could not be loaded: node_modules/@microsoft/sp-webpart-workbench/lib/api/ that comes while developing an SPFx client-side web part.
the api entry could not be loaded: node_modules/@microsoft/sp-webpart-workbench/lib/api/
After developing an SPFx web part, when I ran the gulp serve command, it threw the error “[spfx-serve] The api entry could not be loaded: node_modules/@microsoft/sp-webpart-workbench/lib/api/ “.
Here is the error you can see the screenshot below:
To fix the above error, run the below command in the command prompt.
npm i @microsoft/sp-webpart-workbenchOnce the command is successfully executed the error will not come.
![[spfx-serve] The api entry could not be loaded: node_modules/@microsoft/sp-webpart-workbench/lib/api/](png/workbench-issue-solved-command.png "workbench issue solved command")
This is how to fix the error – [spfx-serve] the api entry could not be loaded: node_modules/@microsoft/sp-webpart-workbench/lib/api/ easily.
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