chokidar

[ChrisTsou]

On my machine (arch wsl on windows) the app wouldn't start because it couldn't find the package "chokidar". which it didn't install properly with npm install because fs events dependency wouldn't install because in the packagelock file i had to change "os": "darwin" to "os": "linux" under node_modules/fsevents. I open this in case someone stumbles at the same problem.

[normanwilde]

Using Windows, I added "os": "win32" to make it work.

[abhishek-geek]

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and i can't start the app
Error: No version of chokidar is available. Tried chokidar@2 and chokidar@3. You could try to manually install any chokidar version. chokidar@3: Error: Cannot find module 'chokidar'
I also tried to change "os": "darvin" to "os": "linux"

[brianwachira]

You can check out more info about this problem here :
facebook/create-react-app#10811 (comment)

Anyway, Chockidar is a dependency inside webpack that takes care of hot reloads on the save on development environment.

Chokidar 2 has problems with node v14+.

For me, npm update did update webpack to use chockidar 3, hence solve the problem