Creation of my-app using create-react-app fails with below errors

Question

I am trying to create my-app using create-react-app. Below error is seen

create-react-app my-app

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

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

[email protected] postinstall C:\Users\racrk\React\my-app\node_modules\babel-runtime\node_modules\core-js node scripts/postinstall || echo "ignore"

npm ERR! file C:\Program Files\git\bin\bash.exe

npm ERR! path C:\Program Files\git\bin\bash.exe

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! errno ENOENT

npm ERR! syscall spawn C:\Program Files\git\bin\bash.exe

npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: node scripts/postinstall || echo "ignore"

npm ERR! spawn C:\Program Files\git\bin\bash.exe ENOENT

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.

npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

npm ERR! C:\Users\racrk\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2019-09-25T07_06_05_990Z-debug.log

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

Answer 1

npm don't like the space in C:\Program Files\git\bin\bash.exe when he try to spawn bash

try to change the location of bash.exe in a path without space

don't forget to update your PATH env

Answer 2

Make sure a bash executable actually exists at the path output by npm. You can update the path that npm uses for the script shell using:

npm config set script-shell "C:\\Program Files\\git\\bin\\bash.exe"

or check your current script-shell with:

npm config get script-shell

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