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Using Mac OS Catalina & Node 12.13.1. I'm trying to launch my React app to no avail.

When I run $ npm start in my VS Code terminal, nothing happens. No errors or issues are returned.

I have tried deleting Homebrew, in case there were conflicts. I've uninstalled a Windows SSD partition. I've tried un/reinstalling node.js. I've tried to edit ~/.zshrc AND ~/.bash_profiles.

I'm simply trying to run my default React app.

Any help is massively appreciated.

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  • Are you using create-react-app? – Tunmee Dec 03 '19 at 17:19
  • I've tried using '$ npx create-react-app appName', I've also tried installing create-react-app globally. - Thanks for the quick reply. – ISuckAtJavaScript Dec 03 '19 at 17:23
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    When you ran `npx create-react-app appName`, did it successfully create a react app in a `appName` folder and what did you do afterward? Did you change into the `appName` directory before running `npm start`? – Tunmee Dec 03 '19 at 17:29
  • `$ npx create-react-app appName` installed successfully, I changed directory to run `$ npm start`. There are no error messages, the terminal just starts a new line. – ISuckAtJavaScript Dec 03 '19 at 17:37
  • After running `npm start`, can you try waiting for like a minute or two, then visit `http://localhost:3000/` in your browser, see if it loads the create-react-app default page. – Tunmee Dec 03 '19 at 17:45
  • I ran `$ npm start` but again there was no feedback in the Terminal. I waited and loaded `http://localhost:3000/` in Firefox & Chrome. Sadly, nothing. I also tried ports `8000`, `8080` & `5000`. - Again, I really appreciate your help here. – ISuckAtJavaScript Dec 03 '19 at 17:54
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    Does this answer your question? [NPM run \* doesn't do anything](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59016328/npm-run-doesnt-do-anything) – RobC Dec 03 '19 at 18:23
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    YES!!!!! @RobC. Amazing! Cheers mates! – ISuckAtJavaScript Dec 03 '19 at 18:31
  • I had the same problem This page helped me: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59016328/npm-run-doesnt-do-anything – diouf abdou Feb 22 '20 at 19:48

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the same problem encountered for me. expecting a solution. I am in the root folder i.e. my project name is amdb, I am inside amdb folder and tried npm start, npm run start, it returns nothing.

then I found answer on stackoverflow.

npm has a ignore-scripts configuration key. It's expected value is a Boolean and it's set to false by default.

Perhaps it has inadvertently been set to true.

To get/set the ignore-scripts configuration you can utilize the npm-config command:

Check its current setting by running:

npm config get ignore-scripts

If the aforementioned command returns true then reset it to false by running:

npm config set ignore-scripts false
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