Trying to start myfirstreactapp but having trouble installing it

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Hey friends!
I’ve been going through the frontend developer course and have made it to React part 1. I’m trying to make my first react app with the terminal (I’m coding on macOS) and getting this response:

npx create-react-app myfirstreactapp

Need to install the following packages:

[email protected]

Ok to proceed? (y)

npm error code EEXIST

npm error syscall mkdir

npm error path /Users/nickbeaken/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/fe/bf

npm error errno EEXIST

npm error Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/wrappy: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/Users/nickbeaken/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/fe/bf’

npm error File exists: /Users/nickbeaken/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/fe/bf

npm error Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm

npm error with --force to overwrite files recklessly.

npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/nickbeaken/.npm/_logs/2024-11-15T00_29_32_021Z-debug-0.log

I was wondering if anyone could help my out here.

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The problem seems to be with npm not having the right access to your .npm directory. To fix this, you can give yourself the proper permissions by running sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm in your terminal. After that, try running the npx create-react-app myfirstreactapp command again.

If that doesn’t work, you can try adding --force to the command, which will overwrite any conflicting files. Another option is to clear npm’s cache by running npm cache clean --force, which can sometimes resolve these kinds of issues.

Lastly, it’s a good idea to make sure your npm is up to date. You can do that by running npm install -g npm. With these fixes, you should be good to go. Let me know if you’re still stuck.

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