Create-react-app: unable to create react app using create-react-app

[Keerttik]

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

npm ERR! cb() never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR! https://npm.community

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

[iHmD]

You have a problem with npm and not with create-react-app!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR! https://npm.community

Maybe you don't have the required version of node which is 8.10 or above, so check your node version!

[Keerttik]

It was a proxy issue though.
I have v10.15.3 of node installed..
Thank you