Cannot spawn process: npm start

[Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Hi,

I need to call a Node application. node and npm are in windows 
path variable.
I have following folder structure:
./app.d
./js/helloworld.js
./js/package.json
content of helloworld.js:
console.log('hello world');

content of package.json:
{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node helloworld.js"
  }
}

content of app.d
import std.process, std.path, std.file, std.stdio;

void main()
{
  string workDir = buildPath(thisExePath.dirName, "js");
  string[] args = ["npm", "start"];
  spawnProcess(args, std.stdio.stdin, std.stdio.stdout, 
std.stdio.stderr, null, std.process.Config.none, workDir);
}

I compile with dmd and then start the application. I always 
receive an error "Failed to spawn new process". As I specify the 
work directory, this should work, or?

Kind regards
André