create-react-app failing when creating new project

[CodeBradley]

Describe the bug

When running create-react-app client I get the error below (--version 1.5.2)

Did you try recovering your dependencies?

Yes, still getting the error: [email protected] (Just 6.10.3 was printed)

Environment

Environment Info:

System:
OS: Windows 10
CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5700HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz
Binaries:
Node: 11.4.0 - C:\Users\jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\node.CMD
Yarn: 1.12.3 - C:\Users\jack\AppData\Roaming\npmyarn.CMD
npm: 6.10.3 - C:\Users\jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\npm.CMD
Browsers:
Edge: 42.17134.1.0
Internet Explorer: Not Found
npmPackages:
react: Not Found
react-dom: Not Found
react-scripts: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
create-react-app: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

1. I am trying to run create-react-app and it keeps deleting the folder that's created because of an error

Expected behavior

I thought it would create a new React application for me

Actual behavior

Creating a new React app in C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\test.

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

yarn add v1.12.3
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] Resolving packages...
warning react-scripts > postcss-preset-env > postcss-color-functional-notation > postcss-values-parser > [email protected]: I wrote this modul
e a very long time ago; you should use something else.
warning react-scripts > jest > jest-cli > jest-config > jest-environment-jsdom > jsdom > [email protected]: use String.prototype.padStart()
[2/4] Fetching packages...
error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "^8.10.0 || ^10.13.0 || >=11.10.1". Got "11.4.0"
error Found incompatible module
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

Aborting installation.
  yarnpkg add --exact react react-dom react-scripts --cwd C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\test has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting test / from C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject
Done.

[CodeBradley]

Tried updating create-react-app globally also, here is the output

C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app>create-react-app --version
1.5.2

C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app>npm cache clean --force
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.

C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app>npm install -g create-react-app
C:\Users\jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\create-react-app -> C:\Users\jack\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\create-react-app\index.js
+ [email protected]
added 33 packages from 29 contributors, removed 9 packages and updated 22 packages in 23.738s

C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app>create-react-app --version
3.1.0

C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app>create-react-app client

Creating a new React app in C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app\client.

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

yarn add v1.12.3
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "^8.10.0 || ^10.13.0 || >=11.10.1". Got "11.4.0"
error Found incompatible module
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

Aborting installation.
  yarnpkg add --exact react react-dom react-scripts --cwd C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app\client has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting generated file... yarn.lock
Deleting client/ from C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app
Done.

C:\Users\jack\WebstormProject\launch-app>

[pixeltight]

same

error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "^8.10.0 || ^10.13.0 || >=11.10.1".

Had to switch Node version from 11.9 to latest LTS - 10.16.2

Should be able to at least override, eject and reconfigure dependencies? Switching Node versions can be perilous in real world / production scenarios.

[iansu]

@CodeBradley You shouldn't be installing Create React App globally any more (and it looks like you've got a pretty old version). There are instructions here on the recommended ways of creating a new app: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/getting-started

^8.10.0 || ^10.13.0 || >=11.10.1 are the versions of Node that ESLint 6 supports. 8.10 and 10.13 are when both of those releases became LTS so using at least that version is probably a good idea in general.

[Macilias]

There must be a bug.
my node versions seams to be 12.8.0 but yarn thinks its 11.10.0

 …/playground/react-with-redux2019  create-react-app songs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     ✔  1413  11:49:01

Creating a new React app in /Users/mniemczyk/Programming/playground/react-with-redux2019/songs.

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

yarn add v1.17.3
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚  Fetching packages...
error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "^8.10.0 || ^10.13.0 || >=11.10.1". Got "11.10.0"
error Found incompatible module.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

Aborting installation.
  yarnpkg add --exact react react-dom react-scripts --cwd /Users/mniemczyk/Programming/playground/react-with-redux2019/songs has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting generated file... yarn.lock
Deleting songs/ from /Users/mniemczyk/Programming/playground/react-with-redux2019
Done.
 …/playground/react-with-redux2019  brew upgrade node                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1 ↵  1414  11:50:29
Error: node 12.8.0 already installed

[Macilias]

Ok,

to fix this, I had to uninstall node, and npm installed by brew.
Than install it via:
https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Than run into:
npm ERR! cb() never called!
And than fix permissions with:

sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.npm
sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.config

[aniket-kulkarni]

I was getting the same error. My earlier node version was 11.12.0. I installed the 10.16.2 which is a LTS version. And now it is working fine.

[jackkranz]

try brew uninstall yarn
then CRA will use npm.

[chelseaohara]

I was running into this same issue with yarn. I tried upgrading node with the .msi installer but checking the version would still show 10.8

I figured I must have a second node install, I tried deleting a number of folders and files but it persisted. Found a very useful command in another thread - where node - and figured out it was in my conda environment.

Deleted all references to nodejs and npm there, restarted and reinstalled node with the .msi installer, and yarn create react-app worked as expected.

[joaocv3]

upgrading yarn with brew upgrade yarn worked for me

[metamn]

I'm on Ubuntu latest experiencing the same error.

1. I've updated yarn to latest: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
2. I've issued create-react-app
3. Got the same error

cs@cs-swift:~/work$ yarn -v
1.9.4
cs@cs-swift:~/work$ node -v
v11.2.0

[metamn]

Downgrading node to the latest stable version solved the problem: https://askubuntu.com/questions/426750/how-can-i-update-my-nodejs-to-the-latest-version

[Tabebee]

I was having the same problem. I ended up using method 1 on this guid and everything is working again.
https://hosting.review/tutorial/how-to-update-node/
These are all the commands:
npm install npm@latest -g
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable