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

I jus

Answer 1

New way of installation will resolve the issue.

According to the latest react documentation follow below steps to create react app

npx create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

Note(from ReactJS Team): If you've previously installed create-react-app globally via npm install -g create-react-app, we recommend you uninstall the package using npm uninstall -g create-react-app to ensure that npx always uses the latest version.

Refer official documentation: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/getting-started