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Ankit Bhardwaj
Ankit Bhardwaj

Reputation: 21

npx create-react-app my-app not working. npm ERR! EEXIST

I am just running npx create-react-app my-app and getting the following error :

Creating a new React app in D:\Other computers\My Laptop\Programming [P]\Web Development\Projects\my-portfolio\my-app.

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

npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! path D:\Other computers\My Laptop\Programming [P]\Web Development\Projects\my-portfolio\my-app\node_modules\.staging
npm ERR! errno -4075
npm ERR! EEXIST: file already exists, mkdir 'D:\Other computers\My Laptop\Programming [P]\Web Development\Projects\my-portfolio\my-app\node_modules\.staging'
npm ERR! File exists: D:\Other computers\My Laptop\Programming [P]\Web Development\Projects\my-portfolio\my-app\node_modules\.staging
npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm
npm ERR! with --force to overwrite files recklessly.

I have tried:

Please help !

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3417

Answers (2)

ROHIT HUTAGONNA
ROHIT HUTAGONNA

Reputation: 41

Try npm cache clean --force. and I hope it good to go after that.

Upvotes: 4

Ghouse Mohamed
Ghouse Mohamed

Reputation: 437

If you don't want to overwrite the contents of my-app directory, you can always choose a different name for your react-app. Something like this should work:

npx create-react-app myapp

However, if you are not bothered about the already existing directory you can do:

npx create-react-app my-app --force

Upvotes: 0

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