vue create does only create package.json & package-lock.json

[baermathias]

Version

3.5.1

Environment info

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.0 Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 10.15.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.0/bin/node
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 6.4.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 72.0.3626.109
    Firefox: 65.0.1
  npmGlobalPackages:
    @vue/cli: 3.5.1

Steps to reproduce

Install vue:
npm install -g @vue/cli

create project:
vue create projectname

go to project dir and run:
cd projectname

npm run serve

What is expected?

A running project

What is actually happening?

Getting error message:
npm ERR! missing script: serve

vue has only created 3 files after vue create projectname: package.json, package-lock.json, README.md

If I try to create the project with vue ui, the same files are being created but a different error message in the browser:
NO_MODULES

[LinusBorg]

Possibly related to #3664

[baermathias]

Setting NODE_ENV to development solves the issue:
export NODE_ENV=development

But then another error appears:

ERROR  Failed to compile with 1 errors 
error  in ./src/main.js
Module build failed (from ./node_modules/babel-loader/lib/index.js):
Error: [BABEL] ./src/main.js: Cannot find module '@babel/preset-env/data/built-ins.json'

[baermathias]

Solved it by changing the following setting in babel.config.js:

module.exports = {
  presets: [
    '@vue/app'
  ]
}

to:

module.exports = {
  presets: [
    '@babel/preset-env'
  ]
}

[haoqunjiang]

FYI it's due to the release of babel v7.4.0 and is fixed in v7.4.1
See #3671