I am trying to setup a ReactJS app on Windows using the following command in Git Bash:

npx create-react-app my-app

and the output is coming as :

`Creating a new React app in C:\Users\Dell\desktop\react-portfolio-website-1.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes. Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts with cra-template...

Aborting installation. npm install --no-audit --save --save-exact --loglevel error react react-dom react-scripts cra-template has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json Deleting react-portfolio-website-1/ from C:\Users\Dell\desktop node:fs:1226 return handleErrorFromBinding(ctx); ^

Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, rmdir '\?\C:\Users\Dell\desktop\react-portfolio-website-1' at rmdirSync (node:fs:1226:10) at _rmdirSync (node:internal/fs/rimraf:235:5) at rimrafSync (node:internal/fs/rimraf:193:7) at Object.rmSync (node:fs:1275:10) at Object.removeSync (C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\npm-cache_npx\c67e74de0542c87c\node_modules\fs-extra\lib\remove\index.js:15:28) at C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\npm-cache_npx\c67e74de0542c87c\node_modules\create-react-app\createReactApp.js:539:14 at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) { errno: -4082, syscall: 'rmdir', code: 'EBUSY', path: '\\?\C:\Users\Dell\desktop\react-portfolio-website-1' }

Node.js v18.12.1 `

I always face this problem, expected to get new react js project.

CodePudding user response：

Are you on VPN or do you have any antivirus installed. Try disabling it and then running npx create---

CodePudding user response：

I had almost same issue, I had to changed my terminal for VSCode from Powershell to bash, then I ran these commands and it worked.

npm cache clean --force

npx create-react-app (project name)

Hope this should help you