Trouble in create-react-app in my local environment

Author: DuraiiiiCreated Jan 13, 2024Updated Jun 20, 2026

MacBook-Pro ~ % npx create-react-app my-app

Creating a new React app in /Users/Durai/my-app.

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

npm ERR! code EEXIST npm ERR! syscall mkdir npm ERR! path /Users/Durai/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/6d/ff npm ERR! errno EEXIST npm ERR! Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/scheduler: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/Users/Durai/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/6d/ff' npm ERR! File exists: /Users/Durai/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/6d/ff npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm npm ERR! with --force to overwrite files recklessly.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/Durai/.npm/_logs/2024-01-13T12_30_16_019Z-debug-0.log

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