React app does not start server with npm start

Question

I created a new react app using CRA. As soon as I started the development server, it throws the error and exits.

Starting the development server...                                               

events.js:174                                                                    
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event                                       
      ^                                                                          

Error: spawn cmd ENOENT                                                          
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:240:19)    
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:415:16)                              
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)               
Emitted 'error' event at:                                                        
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:246:12)    
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:415:16)                              
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)               
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE                                                         
npm ERR! errno 1                                                                 
npm ERR! cart-redux@0.1.0 start: `react-scripts start`                           
npm ERR! Exit status 1                                                           
npm ERR!                                                                         
npm ERR! Failed at the cart-redux@0.1.0 start script.                            
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logg
ing output above.                                                                

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:                             
npm ERR!     C:\Users\HP\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-05-26T09_32_50_014Z
-debug.log  

The react-scripts version 3.0.1 is avoiding to 'npm start'. I tried downgrading to version 2.1.8, it works fine. But I don't want to downgrade the version everytime to make my app work. I tried following the similar case, but it didn't help. Any one else facing the issue, please help to resolve it.

Answer 1

if you tried this and it didn't work for you then this maybe a react-scripts issue so to fix it try this:

remove node_modules and lock files
edit package.json so the version of react-scripts is "2.1.8"
npm install
npm start

LTK how that goes