using create-react-app I get EEXIST: file already exists

Question

I am making my first react app and running command: npx create-react-app my-app and i am getting this error:

Error: EEXIST: file already exists, mkdir 'C:\Users\Deepak'

command not found: create-react-app

Can anybody please help me to resolve this error?

Answer 1

Follow these steps, it will definitely work:

1. npm uninstall -g create-react-app
2. npm install -g create-react-app
3. npx create-react-app the-name-of-your-app

Answer 2

I do have space in my UserName folder so I tried this run the command

npm config edit

set the variable cache=C:\Users\{UserName} and save the file

This work in my case, hope it will help u too