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create-react-app : npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for [email protected]

I'm trying to create a new react project with create-react-app as usual :

npx create-react-app .

But I'm getting an error :

npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for [email protected].
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

I've checked and the package toidentifier 1.0.1 is available in the repo. I don't understand why I'm getting this error.

I am also able to get the same error when trying to npm i on an existing project that uses react-scripts. The error is quite recent, I've never had any problem of this kind previously.

I'm using node 17.0.1 and npm 8.1.0 What could be wrong ?

Edit : I also tried with node 17.6.0 and npm 8.5 and the same thing happens

Solution

  • If you encouter the same error, it's probably due to your local npm cache which isn't up to date and inconsistent.

    Run npm cache clean --force to ensure that the package and dependencies lists will be updated.

    This happened to me with the toidentifier package which is a low-level dependency used in various packages, including some webpack dependencies. It's likely that this error may occur with some other packages.