How to solve npm error “npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE”

Question

I\'m trying to learn react, so I have this sample code for the full-stack react voting app, and I am trying to get it to work but after running npm install followed by npm s

Answer 1

The port is probably being used by another application, try listing and see if it's your application:

lsof -i:8080

You can kill the process of this port:

lsof -ti:8080 | xargs kill

Answer 2

Step 1: $ npm cache clean --force

Step 2: Delete node_modules by $ rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json folder or delete it manually by going into the directory and right-click > delete / move to trash. Also, delete package-lock.json file too.

Step 3: npm install

To start again, $ npm start

This worked for me. Hopes it works for you too.

PS: Still if it is there, kindly check the error it is displaying in red and act accordingly. This error is specific to node.js environment. Happy Coding!!

Answer 3

Delete node_modules and package-lock.json, and then run npm install. It worked perfectly here(run command below inside project root):

rm -rf node_modules && rm ./package-lock.json && npm install

Answer 4

Try to reinstall the cli package globally. In my case, I was trying to test a Vue.js tutorial when I get the same error message. The other thing I did was run the vue command again but this time using webpack-simple and that is why I am not sure wich one solved the problem but now it is working.

Answer 5

This solution fixed the error in Win10.

Please install globally npm install -g node-pre-gyp

Answer 6

My solution:

I was missing config.env properties because I was developing on a new machine, and of course I keep my config files out of my repo.

If you are using a different machine than usual, make sure that you include any config files that are not present in the repo that gets cloned.