Issues with setting up React project (vite)

[wet badger]

I have no idea what's going on and I've been trying to solve this all day.

I've tried numerous 'npm' commands and it just comes up with these types of errors when trying to get started with a new project.

Thanks

[shut vine]

Windows and Mac don't like it when you try to remotely change files inside the User folder. A lot of system files are linked to it and the operating system is very protective over it, even if you are the system admin.

My advice is to put all your projects in a different folder that isn't linked to the User directory. Ideally put them in a secondary drive or partition to make sure they don't interfere with the system files. @wet badger

[tender yarrow]

Like @shut vine said, Users folder is a highly protected folder in an operating system and unless you have admin powers in the terminal, you are denied of doing anything in that memory zone.

Do you not have another drive or a user created folder where you can modify the contents of the folder without any admin creds ?

[wet badger]

I mean this is my personal laptop and carrying around an external drive for development purposes seems like something I shouldn't have to do — I moved my development folder (contains all the projects) our of my [name] user folder to the documents folder but of course the error persists. @shut vine

[obtuse patio]

Can you try to reinstall node using brew? or nvm?

[wet badger]

Turns out it was a permissions problem with the npm cache folder; I had to run sudo chown -R 501:20 "/Users/ryan/.npm"

[obtuse patio]

that would have been my other idea, but for some people reinstalling node helps. I also don't like fiddling with permissions in the home folder. I'm glad you made it work