Today, I will create a react web application with react standards creating command. But, I will introduce some acknowledges that keep you from inaccessible the standards registry in your country(such as China).

Standard Offical Command

The first is first. You see many places that use this command to create react web applications.

npx create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

By default, npx are slow and will take some times. You are use yarn instead.

npm install --global yarn
yarn --version

yarn global add create-react-app
create-react-app my-app

Use Custom Registry

If you got an error that indicates that this registry URL is inaccessible, then you need to switch to an accessible registry. If you live in China, you can use this registry.registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org/. Or you can change the command manually in your .npmrc file. I recommend to change variables to command:

npm config set registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org
npm config get registry

npm config list

npm install -g create-react-app

create-react-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

Use Private Registry

If you are using a private registry. The only thing you need to be concerned about is changing the registry and setup credentials.

npm config set registry=https://your private registry
npm config set _auth="<token>"

The command is encrypted by base64

echo -n "<lowecase_email>:<password>" | openssl base64

If you don’t have OpenSSL installed on Windows, you can use the following snippet in windows Powershell.

$MYTEXT = '<lowecase_email>:<password>'
$ENCODED = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($MYTEXT))
Write-Output $ENCODED

Note:

You can also google to encrypt online base64 credentials, You can also decrypt your credentials, sometimes, windows or Linux will append a newline character \n or \r\n at the end, make sure that doesn't include in your passport.

I stalled v8.19.3 for npm(npm --version), And v16.17.0 for my node(node --version) according my experience, but the latest node version could cause encryption fail(9.1.2). Check npm history.

.npmrc config file

The .npmrc file can exist in four different places.

` Per project NPM config and Per-user NPM config are both frequently used config files. Publishable settings can be placed under Per-Project, sensitive information should be placed under Per-user` folder.

Cache

The npm cache file located at your C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Local\npm-cache and C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache folders. You can clean your cache by deleted these two folders, or with command

npm cache clean --force