Roots 7.0.0 Failed to load resource -- missing scripts.js?

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I’m not sure if I’m just doing something wrong with the latest Roots version but I’m getting the following error when I attempt to load any page with a fresh install of Roots 7.0.0.

[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) (scripts.js, line 0) http://mysite.dev/wp-content/themes/my-theme/assets/js/scripts.js

I’m not using Bedrock in this case and I have added define('WP_ENV', 'development'); to my wp-config.php file. I have verified that the scripts.js file doesn’t exist and I have grunt running via grunt watch (which is working for CSS and apparently JavaScript as well besides this issue).

I notice that there is a line in lib/scripts.php that sets the js value in the $assets array to 'js' => '/assets/js/scripts.min.js' . '?' . $assets['assets/js/scripts.min.js']['hash'], but only if the WP_ENV is set to development.

I tried just modifying my _main.js file to trigger a recompile for grunt and perhaps generate the scripts.js file but it doesn’t. Anyone know what’s going on here?

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Did you run npm intall on the theme root directory before grunt watch?

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I did run npm install – but I figured it out and it was a hidden file oversight on my part. I moved the theme files, not using the folder for some reason, after unzipping and didn’t get the . files like .jshintrc, .bowerrc, etc.

Feel free to delete this thread or keep it up if it helps for other people.