Error while using create-react-app - ENOENT

New Node & React user here. I'm following the React tutorial but run into a problem on my Windows 10 machine:

C:\Users\Wout>create-react-app my-app

Creating a new React app in C:\Users\Wout\my-app.

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

npm ERR! path C:\Users\Wout\my-app\node_modules\abab
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'C:\Users\Wout\my-app\node_modules\abab' -> 'C:\Users\Wout\my-app\node_modules\.abab.DELETE'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Wout\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2018-03-14T15_21_11_867Z-debug.log

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

Deleting generated file... node_modules
Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting my-app / from C:\Users\Wout
Done.

Things I've tried so far:

Reinstall Node.js (v8.10.0, npm 5.6.0)
Disabling Adobe creative cloud sync & related processes (these were spawning node.exe processes)
Running CMD in admin
Run the command from VS Code Powershell
Closing Visual Studio Code before executing the command
Run the command with npx
Rebooted the system several times
Running the command from the user folder as well as other drives
Running the Typescript version: create-react-app my-app --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts

It's all quite strange to me, since on Mac OS X the command executes without issues. I also can't seem to find other people with the same problem.

For what it's worth, it always stops after this "finalizing abab" package step.

I have an installation of XAMPP running an Apache and MySQL service, don't know if that has anything to do with it. I don't think so since I'm not even running the app yet, plus the server runs on port 3000 anyway.

回答1:

I eventually solved it by closing as many extra processes as possible. Will try to find out which process was interfering with the command.

Edit: Ding ding ding! It was MalwareBytes! The "realtime protection 30-day trial" had restarted after an update and it was screwing with the filesystem.

回答2:

I also just installed MalWareBytes, and I get the same error. I tried running create-react-app from the CLI as administrator, and while it was running I read your solution, and so I shut down MalWareBytes as the installation was in progress.

It worked, but I don't know if that is because I ran as administrator, or because I shut down MalWareBytes.

But for anyone having this problem, you could also try running your command prompt/powershell with administrator rights.

回答3:

try running the command from the project directory... worked for me. i ran the command from the parent of the project directory for example: reactApp/hellowworld run from helloworle directory instead...