issue on setting angular 4 on windows machine facing this error

Question

I am getting an error to install angular4 cli with node & npm on the windows machine. getting this error

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules@angular\cli\node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

Answer 1

This is not an error, this is a warning.

It says that the dependency fsevents wants a darwin operating system, but you are running on a Windows (win32 OS) machine.

It is only a warning because it is just an optional dependency for mac users.

The warning may disapear if you update NPM, though.

More details in this github issue.