Cannot find NPM on AppData\Roaming

Question

I'm starting learning nodejs with express, when I try to run the command "npx create-react-app my-app" I get several errors that npm was not found

npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.

The logs says:

verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'C:\Users\irami\AppData\Roaming\npm'

However, if I run the following

npm config get prefix

I get

C:\Users{myname}\AppData\Roaming\npm

Not quite understanding what is I'm doing wrong, or how to fix it. Any help?

Answer 1

This actually worked for me:

1. Updated npm to the latest version

npm install -g npm@latest

2. Clean npm cache

npm cache clean -f

3. Delete node modules and package-lock.json

npm rm -rf node_modules

rm package-lock.json

4. Retry installing dependencies

npm install

After all those steps, I was able to see npm under AppData\Roaming. Thanks for your answers :)

Answer 2

Create an empty npm directory in AppData directory.

Then re-run npx create-react-app my-app.