The NPM script 'start' exited without indicating that the create-react-app server was listening for requests

Question

I faced with this problem:

The NPM script 'start' exited without indicating that the create-react-app server was listening for requests. The error output was: 'rimraf' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! errno 1

npm ERR! [email protected] start: `rimraf ./build && 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:

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TSystem.Threading.Tasks.Task<TResult>.GetResultCore(bool waitCompletionNotification)

Answer 1

A similar error as @JamesPoulose but I had installed npm. The problem was I installed it when Visual Studio was open. Event Viewer therefore showed me this error:

Category: Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices

EventId: 0

'npm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

A simple restart of Visual Studio fixed it.

Answer 2

You might have missed installing the dependencies in your source project. That is why it is unable to start to run your application without references.

Run npm install in your source project would resolve the issue