react, creating a project issues

Question

i am creating react app like following but i found an error.please guide me what is the error.

E:\React>create-react-app template-app

Creating a new React app in E:\React\template-app.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts with cra-template...

npm ERR! Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...pha.24","dependencies'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Muaaz\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-08-24T11_52_18_657Z-debug.log

Aborting installation.
  npm install --save --save-exact --loglevel error react react-dom react-scripts cra-template has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting template-app/ from E:\React
Done.

Answer 1

With this sort of thing, it's worth checking the issues on the relevant GitHub repo. From issue #7261 , it seems other people have run into this from time to time and running this fixes it for them:

npm cache clean --force