Angular 4 - “tree.branch is not a function” when trying to start a new project

Question

When I run ng new testApp I get this error

Error: tree.branch is not a function
tree.branch is not a function

My node version is

Answer 1

Remove the node_modules folder from your $HOME directory

cd $HOME
rm -rf node_modules

For some reason the node_modules folder was in the $HOME directory and ng CLI was using it.