Error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported

Describe the bug

I installed the latest Node version, currently, it’s 17.2.0. When I try to start the project in development mode with the command npm run start, it throws an error & it’s unable to start the project for development.

Pre-requisites:

• Node’s version 17.2.0.
• NPM’s version 8.1.41.
• OS: Window 11
• CLI: Windows PowerShell

Steps to reproduce:

• run the command npx create-react-app hello-world
• navigate to the project’s root & run the command: npm run start

Expected results

It was expected to compile in dev mode & launch React’s app in the browser like in the screenshot below: ( which it’s using Node’s version 16.13.1)

Actual results

It doesn’t compile & it throws the following error instead:

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at new Hash (node:internal/crypto/hash:67:19)
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:130:10)
    at module.exports (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\util\createHash.js:135:53)
    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:417:16)
    at handleParseError (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:471:10)
    at C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:503:5
    at C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:358:12
    at iterateNormalLoaders (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:214:10)
    at iterateNormalLoaders (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:221:10)
C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\react-scripts\scripts\start.js:19
  throw err;
  ^

Error: error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported
    at Object.createHash (node:crypto:130:10)
    at module.exports (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\util\createHash.js:135:53)
    at NormalModule._initBuildHash (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:417:16)
    at C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:452:10
    at C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\webpack\lib\NormalModule.js:323:13
    at C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:367:11
    at C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:233:18
    at context.callback (C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\loader-runner\lib\LoaderRunner.js:111:13)
    at C:\Users\manue\Desktop\projects\hello-world\node_modules\babel-loader\lib\index.js:59:103 {
  opensslErrorStack: [ 'error:03000086:digital envelope routines::initialization error' ],
  library: 'digital envelope routines',
  reason: 'unsupported',
  code: 'ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED'
}

This is a screenshot of the issue:

Workaround

• uninstall Node’s version 17.2.0
• install Node’s version 16.13.1
• run npm run start

The app should compile now.

[nicholasrobertson]

While you wait for a new CRA version, you can run Node version 16 without uninstalling version 17 using nvm

nvm install 16.13.0 nvm run 16.13.0

Have a look at creating a .nvmrc file in your projects root. https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#nvmrc

I assume the issue is CRA using webpack-v4 and is resolved upgrading to v5 ( I haven’t actually validated this ) (#14532) #11563 #11562

[Emekaony]

Just as @TadRodgers and @Manuel-Suarez-Abascal mentioned: downgrading node is probably the best way to go. Did that and everything is working just fine now.

I used:

npm uninstall node to uninstall node npm install node@16.13.1 to install node at that specific version then source ./bash_profile to do some shell magic in order to register my current session with the current installation.