'npx create-react-app' error on Windows 10
I am creating a new React app and get the following error. npm ERR! Could not install from "Smith\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_npx\17420" as it does not contain a package.json file. npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! C:\Users\John Smith\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-10-13T22_04_13_865Z-debug.log This is because npx doesn't handle space in the user directory properly. Use the following command to get the short name of the user directory. dir C:\Users /x Then update the cache path. npm config set cache "C:\Users\JOHNSM~1\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache" --global See this post for other solutions.