sh react-scripts command not found after running npm start

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I cloned a react application onto my system and ran following commands  npm install -g create-react-app npm install --save react react-dom   After that i ran   npm start    But it threw the above mentioned error  It is working fine on my other system from which i pushed it on github  But it is not working on any other system after cloning whether windows or mac

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Just ran into this problem after installing material-ui    Solved it by simply running npm install again

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You shoundt use neither SPACES neither some Special Caracters in you path  like for example using   amp    I my case I was using this path   D  P amp D mern  and because of this   amp   I lost 50 minutes trying to solve the problem      Living and Learning

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I had similar issue  In my case it helped to have Yarn installed and first execute the command   yarn   and then execute the command  yarn start   That could work for you too if the project that you cloned have the yarn lock file  Hope it helps

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Just doing an Yarn install solved the problem for me

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Deleting package-lock json and node modules then npm install worked for me

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In package json  I changed  quot start quot    quot react-scripts start quot   to  quot start quot    quot NODE ENV production node modules react-scripts bin react-scripts js start quot   I hope this solves the problem for some people  Although the other solutions above seem not to work for me

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if anyone is willing to use npm only  then run this npm i react-native-scripts --save  then npm start or whatever the command you use

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you should not install react-scripts globally  for me this fixed the problem  npm install --save react react-dom react-scripts  if this still dont work    update to latest npm version   npm install -g npm latest delete node modules directory reinstall all dependencies   npm install

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https   github com facebookincubator create-react-app  npm install -g create-react-app  create-react-app my-app cd my-app  npm start   You install the create-react-app package globally  After that you run it and create a project called my-app  Enter your project folder and then run npm start  If that doesn t work try running npm install and then npm start  If that doesn t work as well  try updating your node version and or npm

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If anyone still have this problem after trying these solutions  check your project path as node has some issues working with spaced dir names  I changed all directories names that had spaces in their names and it worked perfectly   solution idea taken from  https   npm community t react-scripts-not-found 8574  i am using yarn BTW

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If you are having this issue in a Docker container just make sure that node modules are not added in the  dockerignore file   I had the same issue sh1   react scripts not found  For me this was the solution

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just run these commands npm install npm start  or yarn start  Hope this will work for you thank you

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If the above solutions don t work and you saw the below error  npm ERR  The operation was rejected by your operating system   npm ERR  It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user  try with sudo npm install

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I just randomly experienced this  react-scripts  command not found  error after issuing a react-scripts build request  which was previously working just fine   A simple reboot of my system corrected the issue

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If none of the other answers work properly  after updating the npm etc   I would strongly recommend you to install the project on your desktop   create-react-app project name

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I had this problem for ages and I eventually found my solution by sheer chance  Turns out  you can t have spaces or wacky characters in any folder names    e g    projects tutorial ReactJS JavaScript Framework  ReactJS app-name won t work because JavaScript Framework  ReactJS contains spaces  In general  it s probably not great practice to be using spaces in folder file names anyway but I hope this saves someone at least 4 hours of trial and error   Also  any non-alphanumeric characters should be avoided

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Tried all of the above and nothing worked so I used npm i react-scripts and it worked

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Just You have to restore packages to solve this issue  So just run command    npm install or yarn install

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solution 1   delete the package-lock json file and then type -  npm install  solution 2       Users piyushbajpai  npm  logs 2019-03-11T11 53 27 970Z-debug log   like this is my debug path --  so this you will find in the console -  press on command and click on the link  you will find error line  like this       verbose stack Error  nest form 0 1 0 start  react-scripts start   solution 3   delete the node module and npm i with fresh way   solution 4   go to node module and delete jses folder and delete it  then do npm i and again start with npm start

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using npm i --legacy-peer-deps worked for me  I do not know specifically which operation out of the following it performed   Installing the peer dependencies  latest stable version  Installing the peer dependencies  version which the core dependy you are installing uses   But I think it performs the latter operation  Feel free to let me know if I m wrong  -

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I ran into this error after renaming the directory with the    symbol on macOS to match the name of my NPM package namespace    When the NPM command looked for installed packages in my local node modules  it couldn t find it due to the way macOS was rewriting the directory path  After renaming the directory without    I was up and running again

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I had issues with latest version of yarn 1 15 1-1  I ve fixed it by downgrading to lower version sudo apt-get install yarn 1 12 3-1

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This error occurs when you Install package with npm install instead of yarn install or vice-versa

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this worked for me   if you re using yarn    delete yarn lock run yarn and then yarn start   if you re using npm    delete package-lock json run npm install and then npm start

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I tried every answer but cleaning my npm cache worked   steps   Clean cache       gt  npm cache clean force  reinstall create-react-app       gt  npm install create-react-app  npm install  npm start

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This boggles me time to time when I have a fresh start with create-react-app  please make sure your NODE ENV variable is set to development not production  as devDependencies in your package json will not be installed by npm install

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npm install --save react react-dom react-scripts   Above command worked for me

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Check if node modules directory exists   After a fresh clone  there will very likely be no node modules  since these are  gitignore d    Solution  run npm install to ensure all deps are downloaded   Alternative Solution  If node modules exists  remove it with rm -rf node modules and then run npm install

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The solution that worked for me is below  Try creating React app with this command    create-react-app react-app --scripts-version 1 1 5

[reactjs] sh: react-scripts: command not found after running npm start

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