@TheAli711,

You can't consider this bug fixed just by issuing a "helpful message". That is not a solution. A Windows username containing a space cannot be easily changed to remove the space. It is better to wait years for the computer to die and consider a non-space username with the next computer purchase. Therefore, with your "helpful message" what you are saying is that Windows users in this situation cannot use npx.

The truth is, is that Windows usernames are real people's names with first and last name so there is a space between. Apple, with all its claims of user friendly design forces people to enter a username rather than their real name.

@KenACollins
Yes you are right, showing a helpful message is not enough but the actual issue is not with CRA but rather with npm/npx, and that repo is archived, so instead of making the user track down the issue and waste time, all we can do is show a helpful message,
Kindly look at this comment

@TheAli711, Oh I see. I was missing the context. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

You can fix this by avoiding spaces in the directory names and use hyphens or underscores to avoid this error. I'll add some additional points to overcome this situation.

1. use create-npx-react-app without and a path without any spaces
2. use a temporary directory
3. Set Environment Variable TMP and TEMP this means you need to specify where the temporary files need to be installed in the system

@ravin00 You are correct, we should avoid spaces in folder and file names, but the issue occurs when someone already has those, and for beginners, this causes a lot of trouble as they are unaware. So instead of them having to track down this issue, we can show a helpful message so they know what is wrong. The PR is to print a helpful message after the problem has occurred.

@mrmckeb Could you kindly look into whether this can be merged?

Hi All,

As I have learned by watching this helpful video posting...

#6512 (comment)

I can confirm that simply upgrading to a more recent release of Node and npm resolves the problem. I upgraded to Node 20.15.1 which brought along npm 10.7.0 and after that, the "npx create-react-app my-app" command worked with my username "Ken A Collins" which contains two spaces.