Cannot launch React project

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I am trying to launch a React project for the first time, but I am running into an error I don’t understand.

I made a new React project with create-react-app testreact . That’s seems to work fine.

However, when I try to launch it with npm start , I get the following error:

'JavaScript\testreact\testreact\node_modules\.bin\' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:883
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\Stijn Klijn\Desktop\react-scripts\bin\react-scripts.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:880:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:725:27)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:72:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: []
}

Does anyone know what this means? And why is it trying to access a folder on my desktop? (which doesn’t exist). I have the latest versions of node and npm!

Thanks in advance!

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That fixed it. Thanks!

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