I can't get npm start to run

Question

I'm just created a react project using NPM with the npx create-react-app . Afterward, I tried starting the development server and got an error message.

I have tried looking at the error code and log but I am not sure what to do.

The terminal error message is

/Users/selina/Desktop/reactv2/node_modules/chokidar/lib/fsevents-handler.js:28 return (new fsevents(path)).on('fervent', callback).start();

TypeError: fsevents is not a constructor

Answer 1

This may be due to root permission. I had the same issue in MacOS and i solved by sudo npm cache clean --force sudo npm uninstall sudo npm install

Hope this helps.. do it with root user

Answer 2

npx depends on specific npm version there could be some issue in these number mismatch

you can try with npm init

npm init create-app myfirtsproject
cd myfirtsproject
npm start or yarn start