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"npm start" is not working with newly created react apps


I created a react app with npx create-react-app myburger and then entered the project through cd myburger. After that when I run the command npm start, the following error shows:

$ npm start

> [email protected] start E:\front-end projects\burger\myburger
> react-scripts start

Starting the development server...

events.js:287
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn powershell ENOENT
←[90m    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:267:19)←[39m
←[90m    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:469:16)←[39m
←[90m    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)←[39m
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
←[90m    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:273:12)←[39m
←[90m    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:469:16)←[39m
←[90m    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)←[39m {
  errno: ←[32m'ENOENT'←[39m,
  code: ←[32m'ENOENT'←[39m,
  syscall: ←[32m'spawn powershell'←[39m,
  path: ←[32m'powershell'←[39m,
  spawnargs: [
    ←[32m'-NoProfile'←[39m,
    ←[32m'-NonInteractive'←[39m,
    ←[32m'–ExecutionPolicy'←[39m,
    ←[32m'Bypass'←[39m,
    ←[32m'-EncodedCommand'←[39m,
    ←[32m'UwB0AGEAcgB0ACAAIgBgACIAaAB0AHQAcAA6AC8ALwBsAG8AYwBhAGwAaABvAHMAdAA6ADMAMAAwADAAYAAiACIA'←[39m
  ]
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `react-scripts start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start 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\User\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-09-08T15_41_32_469Z-debug.log

All the previous projects that I have runs fine. Only the new ones that I am creating now are facing this problem. I am on 32 bit windows 7, using vscode and bash. Can anyone provide a solution?


Solution

  • I tried many things and the only one that worked for me was to downgrade: npm install [email protected] Tbh I don't know why it worked