Hello. I am getting errors while trying to install react app. Here is what command prompt
I have tried many things and haven’t found a way to solve for days.
It looks like you haven’t chosen a folder where you want to create the app. So the terminal tries to install in some temporary directory where you’re not allowed to install the app.
It is the F directory. I have tried to change it to C but it didn’t allow me to make this.
Did you try to create a folder for all your apps and Codecademy projects and install the new app inside that folder? That should work.
Hi @positivedev !
How are you? You have a problem with permissions, that’s why you can’t create your app. You can try several things to hang out a solution. Let’s start!
Try to make your folder manually. Steps to repeat:
- Navigate to /home/user/{xxxxx} folder
- Create a new directory
- Navigate to new directory
- Run
npx create-react-app my-app
Also, you can try uninstall npm (npm uninstall -g create-react-app]) then try to create app [Perform this in C drive as per your image)
If this, doens’t work and it’s possible try to creat the app in a different drive.
Try to open your command bash as administrator.
Try installing it globally first, using the command
npm install -g create-react-app
And then, you can create your app using the command,
npx create-react-app <Name of your app>
This is occurring because windows is not giving permission to the user to create a folder inside system drive. To solve this:
Right Click
The Folder > Properties > Security Tab
Click on Edit to change Permissions > Select the user and give Full Control to that user.
I give you a list of solution, let me know if you can fix the problem! If not, reply with more information.
See u.
I am getting this error while trying to create under a different folder in F disk.
Also, I cannot change the permissions of this disk.
How can I change the working directory to C disk? When I try to change it with cd /C: command, it gives error.
I have already created a new folder under F. You can read the following answer replying to @erodriguez101
Looks like you installed react globally – which is a problem. So try to uninstall the global installation:
npm uninstall -g create-react-app
And then navigate to the folder you created and install the app locally:
npx create-react-app myfirstreactapp
Ok. I have found out the solution.
- Before running the command prompt, right-click on its icon and select “run as administrator”
- Change the drive to F: and go to a child directory (in my case, it was the folder “react”)
- Run the npm install -g create-react-app and npx create-react-app respectively
- Then, go to that child directory and run npm start command.
npm start will open a window on the default browser. In order to show your own message, try to edit app.js file.
It took almost 20 days to realize that I needed to run the command window as the administrator. 