It keeps asking where things are because it cannot see the project.
What you do now
Type out the structure by hand, or paste a tree with node_modules in it and burn the context on nothing.
What happens instead
Right-click, pick a depth, and the skeleton is on the clipboard with the build and dependency folders left out.
What it costs you
10× a day · 30s by hand, 3s with Chute · 4.5 min a day
The same thing from the terminal
The command and the right-click do the same job. The app is worth having because you do it where the files already are, without leaving Finder or typing a path. Both are free and MIT.
Download the appFree and MIT. Or
brew install avaluev/tap/chute