npm start is showing an issue with babel-eslint version

Question

When i ran npm start command to start server for my react app created using npx create-react-app my-app, The following error is occuring.Please help me with the solution to clear the following bug.I have also tried all the steps mentioned below by it but the error was not cleared.

There might be a problem with the project dependency tree.
It is likely not a bug in Create React App, but something you need to fix locally.

The react-scripts package provided by Create React App requires a dependency:

  "babel-eslint": "10.1.0"

Don't try to install it manually: your package manager does it automatically.
However, a different version of babel-eslint was detected higher up in the tree:

  C:\Users\LENOVO\node_modules\babel-eslint (version: 9.0.0) 

Manually installing incompatible versions is known to cause hard-to-debug issues.

If you would prefer to ignore this check, add SKIP_PREFLIGHT_CHECK=true to an .env file in your project.
That will permanently disable this message but you might encounter other issues.

To fix the dependency tree, try following the steps below in the exact order:

  1. Delete package-lock.json (not package.json!) and/or yarn.lock in your project folder.
  2. Delete node_modules in your project folder.
  3. Remove "babel-eslint" from dependencies and/or devDependencies in the package.json file in your project folder.
  4. Run npm install or yarn, depending on the package manager you use.

In most cases, this should be enough to fix the problem.
If this has not helped, there are a few other things you can try:

  5. If you used npm, install yarn (http://yarnpkg.com/) and repeat the above steps with it instead.
     This may help because npm has known issues with package hoisting which may get resolved in future versions.

  6. Check if C:\Users\LENOVO\node_modules\babel-eslint is outside your project directory.
     For example, you might have accidentally installed something in your home folder.

  7. Try running npm ls babel-eslint in your project folder.
     This will tell you which other package (apart from the expected react-scripts) installed babel-eslint.

If nothing else helps, add SKIP_PREFLIGHT_CHECK=true to an .env file in your project.
That would permanently disable this preflight check in case you want to proceed anyway.

P.S. We know this message is long but please read the steps above :-) We hope you find them helpful!

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! reactapp@0.1.0 start: `react-scripts start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the reactapp@0.1.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\LENOVO\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-07-19T12_53_40_050Z-debug.log

Answer 1

create your application outside the Desktop folder.

Answer 2

This is because of the package versions installed in user directory. The line from the error mentions the overriding version in the global user directory.

C:\Users\LENOVO\node_modules\babel-eslint (version: 9.0.0)

Try updating the version in the node_modules folder in the user directory or remove these and maintain local node_modules based on each project requirements.

Answer 3

I found a possible solution, or at least this one worked well for me. npm install @babel/eslint-parser and then npm start . If this doesnt work, first try this:

• Delete babel-eslint in your node-modules or
• Search where you could find that one with npm ls babel-eslint ,

I hope works for you. :)