'react-scripts' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Updated to NodeJS v8.0.0 which includes npm v5.0.0 on my Windows 10 machine.

I created a new app as detailed below:

Reproducible Demo

create-react-app my-app107 cd my-app107 npm start (Compiled successfully!) npm install bootstrap@v4.0.0-alpha.6

npm WARN gentlyRm not removing C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\espree\node_modules.bin\acorn.cmd as it wasn’t installed by C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\espree\node_modules\acorn npm WARN gentlyRm not removing C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\espree\node_modules.bin\acorn as it wasn’t installed by C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\espree\node_modules\acorn npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file. added 3 packages and removed 957 packages in 33.996s

npm start

‘react-scripts’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! my-app107@0.1.0 start: react-scripts start npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ls react-scripts

(react-scripts) invalid error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\react-scripts\package.json

npm ERR! error in C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\react-scripts: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\react-scripts\package.json’ npm ERR! invalid: react-scripts C:\wf\my-app107\node_modules\react-scripts

This is all is left:

[qianch3n]

I tried npm update. Then react-scripts would get updated. And problem fixed.

[JosephMeli]

Hey guys if you are on windows i solved the problem by simply typing "npm install react-scripts -g "

Note from maintainers: this will break other things. Don’t do it.