Error installing create-react-app with npm

Question

When I try to install create-react-app (or nodemon) globally or even within a project, I get the following error. However, I can install other packages perfectly fine both globa

Answer 1

Run npm cache clean --force and then try installing again

Answer 2

I was facing the same issue. Found a solution for the same.

• Go to C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache
• Delete all items present there
• Some files inside 1 or more folders you may not be able to delete, then just rename them to some random name.
• Now retry npm install. It should work

Answer 3

Did you try to execute the command as administrator?