ERROR in Module.createRequire is not a function

Question

I tried to create react app with node version 12.1.0 but it warned me that my minimum node version should be at least 14.0. I used nvm to change my node version to 14.0 and created react app. However, I want to use my app on node version 12.1.0. So I changed to node version v12.1.0 but I got:

"ERROR in Module.createRequire is not a function" error. Also " ERROR in Error: Child compilation failed: Module.createRequire is not a function "

Answer 1

As we can read in official docs:

Create React App

Create React App is a comfortable environment for learning React, and is the best way to start building a new single-page application in React.

It sets up your development environment so that you can use the latest JavaScript features, provides a nice developer experience, and optimizes your app for production. You’ll need to have Node >= 14.0.0 and npm >= 5.6 on your machine.

So these are requirements that you must meet and it seems that it cannot be avoided that way .