Ubuntu create-react-app fails with permission denied

Question

I\'m getting a weird error:

Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir \'/home/ubuntu/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/14/36\'atus

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Answer 1

This problem on a Mac

Working from Reactjs's Getting Started documentation.

The Environment

• OSX Mojave 10.14.3
• NodeJS v10.15.0

The Error

• Command

  npx create-react-app my-app
  

• Output

  Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/Users/caseywise/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/ae/73'instal
  

The Fix

recursively change owner:group on caseywise's NPM preferences directory

sudo chown -R caseywise:staff '/Users/caseywise/.npm/'