Software specifications
| Software | OS | npm | npx | node |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version | Windows 10 | v8.1.2 | v8.1.2 | v16.13.1 |
I was following this video and when I try to create a react application on my system by using the following command
npx create-react-app demo
It shows the following error:
npm ERR! invalid options argument
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-12-07T16_44_17_434Z-debug.log
Log file's content
0 verbose cli [
0 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
0 verbose cli 'C:\\Users\\hp\\AppData\\Roaming\\nvm\\v11.0.0\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
0 verbose cli 'exec',
0 verbose cli '--',
0 verbose cli 'create-react-app',
0 verbose cli 'demo'
0 verbose cli ]
1 info using npm@8.1.2
2 info using node@v16.13.1
3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 1ms
4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 1ms
5 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\npmrc Completed in 2ms
6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 3ms
7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 2ms
8 timing config:load:env Completed in 1ms
9 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\hp\OneDrive\Desktop\.npmrc Completed in 1ms
10 timing config:load:project Completed in 2ms
11 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\hp\.npmrc Completed in 1ms
12 timing config:load:user Completed in 1ms
13 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc Completed in 0ms
14 timing config:load:global Completed in 0ms
15 timing config:load:validate Completed in 1ms
16 timing config:load:credentials Completed in 1ms
17 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
18 timing config:load Completed in 13ms
19 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 13ms
20 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 0ms
21 timing npm:load:setupLog Completed in 1ms
22 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 4ms
23 timing npm:load:cleanupLog Completed in 2ms
24 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
25 timing npm:load:projectScope Completed in 1ms
26 timing npm:load Completed in 22ms
27 verbose stack TypeError: invalid options argument
27 verbose stack at optsArg (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\mkdirp\lib\opts-arg.js:13:11)
27 verbose stack at mkdirp (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\mkdirp\index.js:11:10)
27 verbose stack at tryCatcher (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23)
27 verbose stack at ret (eval at makeNodePromisifiedEval (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promisify.js:184:12), <anonymous>:13:39)
27 verbose stack at Object.mkdirfix (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-registry-fetch\node_modules\cacache\lib\util\fix-owner.js:36:10)
27 verbose stack at makeTmp (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-registry-fetch\node_modules\cacache\lib\content\write.js:121:19)
27 verbose stack at write (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-registry-fetch\node_modules\cacache\lib\content\write.js:35:19)
27 verbose stack at putData (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-registry-fetch\node_modules\cacache\put.js:11:10)
27 verbose stack at Object.x.put (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-registry-fetch\node_modules\cacache\locales\en.js:28:37)
27 verbose stack at WriteStream._flush (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-registry-fetch\node_modules\make-fetch-happen\cache.js:156:21)
27 verbose stack at WriteStream._write (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\flush-write-stream\index.js:36:35)
27 verbose stack at doWrite (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\readable-stream\lib\_stream_writable.js:409:139)
27 verbose stack at writeOrBuffer (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\readable-stream\lib\_stream_writable.js:398:5)
27 verbose stack at WriteStream.Writable.write (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\readable-stream\lib\_stream_writable.js:307:11)
27 verbose stack at WriteStream.end (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\flush-write-stream\index.js:45:41)
27 verbose stack at WriteStream.end (C:\Users\hp\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v11.0.0\node_modules\npm\node_modules\flush-write-stream\index.js:42:47)
28 verbose cwd C:\Users\hp\OneDrive\Desktop
29 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.18363
30 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\hp\\AppData\\Roaming\\nvm\\v11.0.0\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "exec" "--" "create-react-app" "demo"
31 verbose node v16.13.1
32 verbose npm v8.1.2
33 error invalid options argument
34 verbose exit 1
Also tried running
npm i create-react-app -g demo
This resulted in the same error as above
Tried Cloning and Running
I also tried to clone an already working react application, and when I ran the following command to install dependencies
npm i
This gave the following error:
npm ERR! invalid options argument
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-12-07T17_12_17_513Z-debug.log
When trying to clear the cache using npm cache clean --force the following error occurs:
npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
Can someone help me understand what went wrong? Have I not done some installation correctly or missed out on any installation step? What can I do to get started with creating a react application on my machine? Any kind of help is appreciated. If you need any more information please let me know in the comments. Thanks!
