Getting started with Create React App - "Cannot find module"

Question

I'm using the "Getting Started" guide because I've been experiencing endless errors trying to create a react app so far when following tutorials.

And straight away I'm running into a problem. When I run npx create-react-app my-app I get the following:

Cannot find module 'C:\Users\Aristophanes\node_modules\create-react-app\index.js'

Can anyone advise me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Thank you, this worked. I had previously uninstalled globally because that is what is advised on the "Getting started" guide. — Aristophanes, May 15 '19 at 14:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '20 at 12:49

This must be a problem related with your node installation (maybe you removed manually create-react-app package?). I'd recommend following these steps:

Uninstall node and npm
Delete the npm cache and npm modules in your machine (In Windows machine you can usually find them at C:\Users\ {username} \AppData\Roaming\npm-cache and C:\Users\ {user name} \AppData\Roaming\npm) respectively.
Install node and npm again

If you really don't want to delete node and npm, try step 2 and see if that works. Following these steps did the job for me, hope that helps you.

worked for me too. Do not forget to delete the mentioned folders otherwise you have to do it twice like me — Horasan Lee, Aug 13 '20 at 00:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '22 at 16:43

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I had same issue a few times. Every time I was searching thru net for a solution, and for every time i just typed in terminal

npm i node

and its just started working

answered Feb 06 '22 at 16:43

Fannoth

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '19 at 13:27

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I think you might miss installing Node and npm in your machine.

answered May 15 '19 at 13:27

Rajesh Bhartia

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Nope I definitely have node and NPM installed. – Aristophanes May 15 '19 at 13:36

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 28 '23 at 21:26

You'll have to install the library to clean the browser cache after React app updates by running:

npm install --save react-clear-cache

Then uninstall React globally, using

npm uninstall -g create-react-app

then reinstall React globally again:

$ npm install -g create-react-app

Getting started with Create React App - "Cannot find module"

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