create-react-app failing

Created by: anilpank

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Can you reproduce the problem with latest npm?

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npm install -g npm@latest

cd your_project_directory
rm -rf node_modules
npm install

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Can you still reproduce it? Yes

Description

I am trying to use create-react-app to create a react app using command create-react-app work. My OS is Windows 7 64 bit, npm version is 4.5.0, node version is v7.8.0, I tried with earlier npm and node versions as well and still unable to use create-react-app

What are you reporting?

Expected behavior

The command above should be able to create react app. Tell us what you think should happen.

Actual behavior

Tell us what actually happens. It aborts with following messages. npm WARN prefer global marked@0.3.6 should be installed with -g npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.0.17 (node_modules\react-scripts\node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.0.17: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"}) npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.1: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"}) Aborting installation. npm install --save --save-exact react react-dom react-scripts has failed.

Deleting generated file... node_modules Deleting generated file... package.json Deleting work/ from C:\anil\business Done.

Environment

Windows 7 64 bit Run these commands in the project folder and fill in their results:

1. npm ls react-scripts (if you haven’t ejected): C:\anil\business `-- (empty)

2. node -v: v7.8.0

3. npm -v: 4.5.0

Then, specify:

1. Operating system: Windows
2. Browser and version: NA

Reproducible Demo

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