React: create-react-app fails with error “Cannot find module 'lodash'”

Question

I\'m learning React for the first time, and I\'m having a great deal of trouble even getting started with a demo app. When I run npx create-react-app I get the

Answer 1

did you try installing create-react-app? npm install -g create-react-app and then run create-react-app my-app

Answer 2

I continued searching for similar problems that others have had, and someone suggested:

npm cache clean --force 

so I did that, then I did another:

npm i 

and ...

npm i -g create-react-app 

then the create-react-app command worked!!

I hope this helps someone in the future.