Things work better when they are up to date

I wanted to start learning React so we could explore web development as a class, but I ran into a wall.

First I tried running

#Do not Run this. It is the problem!
npx create-react-app

But I got all kinds of error messages warning that packages installed were dangerous. So I saw that you should use something like this instead.

npx create-next-app@latest

Worked great on my laptop at home, as expected, it didn’t work on the school computer. npx runs executables and they don’t let us do that. It is a problem I have seen before, and I knew a workaround. Move to the virtual machine! Over on the virtual machine, I tried the command again, but I got some errors. I searched through blogs and nothing was working. Just the same errors again and again.

I was about to give up when I saw something stating I need version 18 or higher and I was only on version 12.

I ran a couple updates

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Then I followed the directions from pheonixnap.com and we were in business!

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

Close then open the terminal, then update node. You can see the current version here. At the time I write this, I used 20.11.1

nvm ls-remote
nvm install [version.number]
nvm use [version number]

Now go ahead and

npx create-next-app@latest