npx create-react-app -> The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">= 10.x". Got "8.16.0" - Arch Linux

Question

I know this has been here many times, but it just doesn't work. I use Arch Linux. Everytime I try to run

npx create-react-app my-app

or

npm create-react-app my-app

I get

error @pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin@0.4.3: The engine "node" is incompatible with 
this module. Expected version ">= 10.x". Got "8.16.0"
error Found incompatible module.

When I type node -v I get 14.16.1 and npm -v -> 7.10.0 Looks like the node version doesn't appear update to 14.x version. Maybe? I have tried updating sudo npm install -g npm and sudo n stable.

When I try sudo npm install npm@latest -g I get a lot of Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/.............

Answer 1

The fix was that I had installed node via pacman and via Snap Store (I didn't know about it) and I saw in WebStorm that there is some node v 8.16.0 installed. So i uninstalled the snap version and it's working. Looks like create-react-app was using the snap version