My vsc code disappeared and I have no idea why or where it's gone

Question

I was working with discord.js last night and I ran a few commands in the terminal. The last command I wrote caused the name of the file at the top of the screen to be crossed out and turn red and I followed the path to where the file was and it was gone. I've checked the recycling bin and nothing was there. The file has left no traces and the project is gone. Is there any way that I can get the code back?

The commands I ran were -

npm update, 
npm audit, 
npm audit fix (the one that caused the file to disappear)

My file was also within the node_modules folder which probably explains why it disappeared when I ran those.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

If the file that got removed was inside the node_modules folder there's no problem. You can just remove the node_modules folder and run npm install . That will fix the problem.

If there is not package.json file in your project, you can still remove the node_modules folder but then you need to install every dependency manually like this: npm install <module_name>.