Create-react-app: npm install react react-dom --save` failed on npm v3.3.12

Created on 26 Sep 2016 · 15Comments · Source: facebook/create-react-app

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This is an npm bug. Please update npm: npm i -g npm@latest.

After installing create-react-app version 0.5.0 and running the command to create a project I get the error below:

$ create-react-app tktswp
Creating a new React app in /Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp.

Installing packages. This might take a couple minutes.
Installing react-scripts from npm...


> [email protected] install /Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/node_modules/fsevents
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

[fsevents] Success: "/Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v47-darwin-x64/fse.node" already installed
Pass --update-binary to reinstall or --build-from-source to recompile

> [email protected] install /Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

[fsevents] Success: "/Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents/lib/binding/Release/node-v47-darwin-x64/fse.node" already installed
Pass --update-binary to reinstall or --build-from-source to recompile
[email protected] /Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp
├─┬ [email protected]
│ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ └─┬ [email protected]
│ │   └─┬ [email protected]
│ │     └─┬ [email protected]
│ │       └── [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └── [email protected]
└─┬ [email protected]
  └─┬ [email protected]
    └─┬ [email protected]
      └─┬ [email protected]
        └── [email protected]

npm WARN EBUNDLEOVERRIDE Replacing bundled react-scripts > babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex with new installed version
Installing react and react-dom from npm...

[email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/react-dev-utils/node_modules/object-assign -> node_modules/object-assign
[email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex/node_modules/regexpu-core -> node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-preset-es2015/node_modules/regexpu-core
- babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex
- [email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-preset-react-app/node_modules/jsesc
- [email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-preset-react-app/node_modules/regenerate
- [email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-preset-react-app/node_modules/regexpu-core
- [email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-preset-react-app/node_modules/regjsgen
- [email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-preset-react-app/node_modules/regjsparser
- [email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/react-dev-utils/node_modules/pinkie
- [email protected] node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/react-dev-utils/node_modules/pinkie-promise
[email protected] /Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp
├─┬ [email protected]
│ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ ├── [email protected]
│ │ ├── [email protected]
│ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ │ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ │ │ │ └── [email protected]
│ │ │ │ └── [email protected]
│ │ │ └── [email protected]
│ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ │ └── [email protected]
│ │ └── [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│   └── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

npm ERR! Darwin 16.0.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "react" "react-dom" "--save"
npm ERR! node v5.4.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.3.12
npm ERR! path /Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex/node_modules/regexpu-core
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '/Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex/node_modules/regexpu-core' -> '/Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/babel-preset-es2015/node_modules/regexpu-core'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/MyUser/Projects/tktswp/npm-debug.log
`npm install react react-dom --save` failed

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lucasfeliciano

👍2

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If only somebody wrote a reliable npm client! 🐈

gaearon on 30 Sep 2016

😄4 🎉1

All 15 comments

Interesting. Does npm start work after this?

gaearon on 26 Sep 2016

It runs the server it serves content to the browser but it shows this error message in the browser and in the terminal:

Failed to compile.

Error in ./src/index.js
Module build failed: Error: Cannot find module 'babel-plugin-transform-es2015-unicode-regex'
 @ multi main

lucasfeliciano on 26 Sep 2016

Can you update npm, delete node_modules and run npm install?

npm install -g npm@latest
rm -rf node_modules
npm install

gaearon on 26 Sep 2016

🎉1

So far, I can’t reproduce this with Node 6.6.0, npm 3.10.8, and a clean cache, so I’m assuming this is an npm bug that got fixed, or a stale cache issue. I assume you don’t use a custom npm registry?

gaearon on 26 Sep 2016

@gaearon after updating npm it worked.

I forgot to check which version I had.
I'm curious now and would be nice to put it here to have it documented

lucasfeliciano on 27 Sep 2016

@lucasfeliciano I think you can see your previous npm version in the log above

...
npm ERR! node v5.4.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.3.12
...

and yes CRA documentation haven't mentioned about npm required version yet..

You’ll need to have Node >= 4 on your machine.
We strongly recommend to use Node >= 6 and npm >= 3 for faster installation speed and better disk usage.

dvkndn on 27 Sep 2016

It's not that we require any particular version. Unfortunately it's that npm is somewhat buggy and it's hard to guess which versions affect us.

gaearon on 27 Sep 2016

Had same issue with node v5.4.0 and npm v3.3.12 (maybe it could be useful for somebody)

lasfin on 27 Sep 2016

Interesting. Seems like [email protected] is the problematic one.
Does anyone have this issue with other versions?

gaearon on 28 Sep 2016

👍 [email protected] was problematic for me as well

acco on 29 Sep 2016

I have [email protected] (w/ [email protected]) and I get this as well. npm run build does not work after this error (got "Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'react' in /Users/dceddia/tmp/build-test/src").

Updating to [email protected] with [email protected] is working now.

dceddia on 30 Sep 2016

If only somebody wrote a reliable npm client! 🐈

gaearon on 30 Sep 2016

😄4 🎉1

Same issue with:
npm ERR! node v5.5.0
npm ERR! npm v3.3.12

TonyStarkBy on 3 Oct 2016

@TonyStarkBy

This is not exactly unexpected given all other reports with 3.3.12 in this issue 😉 .
There is nothing we can fix here as it’s an npm bug.
Please update npm to the most recent stable version.

gaearon on 3 Oct 2016

👍1

please help me!!!
Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...

npm ERR! Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...OCN7GeUttnzhlJ/iy3oU'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:UsersPrakashAppDataRoamingnpm-cache_logs2019-01-08T06_29_31_212Z-debug.log

Aborting installation.
npm install --save --save-exact --loglevel error react react-dom react-scripts has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting myrapp/ from C:
Done.